How is Allen exposing Webb's writing? Is he publishing some as yet unpublished works?
This would be a mistake in my opinion by Allen. Writers have leeway to write about human character.
Clearly Webb has a sick mind to conjure up something so repulsive. Literary license be damned!
Yes, they do. But even the most decrepit of us would never even think of writing of a father sexually abusing his son in such a graphic manner. Jesus, I can't even think about it, let alone write about it.
These are books published under his own name and really sick subject matter...
True, but a reader might also wonder, "What kind of mind dreams up these things?"
And "Artistic Expression" has always been a means to avoid being labeled a "whore", "prostitute", "homosexual" or just plain "pornographer".......
If you wish to label Webb's softcore porn as "novels revealing the true nature of human character" then that is your business........
My grandfather always said: No matter how much perfume you apply, feces will always be feces........
Of course he has leeway as an artist, but writing it in such graphic detail...there is a line, you know.
"Writers have leeway to write about human character."
So if I understand you correctly; PORN writers are just fine, it's just the people who read it that are perverted...
Sure they do. Until they voluntarily inject themselves into the public eye and voluntarily agree to hold themselves to a higher standard by wishing to hold elective office. Then they have to be aware that every word spoken in the past (to anyone) and every writen word (in any forum, even a personal diary) is open to full examination. How better to cut to the heart of a person's inner philosophy?
The point to be made, I think, is that the books Webb wrote exposes his character. I would not want to vote into office someone (and by the way uses the "n" word a lot for blacks)who is obsessed with derogatory terms for women and lustful sexual fanacies. Eventually, he would find his ideas spilling over into his real life in Washington DC because most of those people are also unreal.
As a man thinketh, so is he.
Surely you don't believe that Webb's depraved mind deserves a Senate seat?