1. Once an author writes a book it might belong to them in terms of copyright but it also belongs to the world as a creation. But some writers try to self-cancel. Some thoughts on this with reference to Rosemary Tonks, Sidney Hook, Kafka, Virgil, Seuss, James Gould Cozzens, etc. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1368202799935332352 …
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10. Virgil wanted the Aeneid(which he was still working on) to be destroyed. Most of the Kafka canon is works that were unpublished while he was alive which he wanted his executor to destroy. Fortunately, neither was listened to.
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11. If you read Kafka's oeuvre, you are doing so in violation of his will. There's no easy answers here: what should be preserved is always going to be a contest between writers, estates, and the reading public. Hard to find a solution to please everyone.
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12. One takeaway is that despite the culture war certainties offered in the Seuss debate, we're dealing with a complex area of competing just clams. I think looser copyright after writer's death helps sort some of this out by removing a veto point.
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13. Tangentially, this is another place where the cancel culture hysteria, if it were based on what it claims to be, would look to policy solutions rather than performative outrage.https://twitter.com/alex_shephard/status/1368992283782176777 …
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Doris Lessing, Retreat to Innocence.
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I found him unreadable.
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Which Richler did he keep out of print?
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I was wondering too. I’m a big fan – and have some early oddities (that are maybe best forgotten?) ...pic.twitter.com/fa9wsgwLkc
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Stanley kubrick aggressively attempted to prevent his first film Fear and Desire from being screened. Jerry Lewis's abhorrently bad Holocaust movie The Day the Clown Cried has only been seen by a few people - including Harry Shearer.https://filmschoolrejects.com/the-day-the-clown-cried/ …
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