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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

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      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

      2. Part of the frustration with the cloddish Dr. Seuss discourse is that what is clearly an attempt by estate to do brand management got recast in cultural war terms. But authors do brand management all the time by selecting what to put out into world & what to keep in print.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

      3. Seuss himself engaged in brand management by not keeping in print such now embarrassing juvenilia as "Boners: By Those Who Pull Them" and "The Pocket Book of Boners."pic.twitter.com/amVbhKD1z0

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

      4. This is Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014), poet and novelist. In the 1960s/1970s she wrote witty social comedies: think Firbanks or Waugh against a swinging London background. Then she had a religious conversion and renounced her work.pic.twitter.com/YAEp644N28

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

      5. Tonks not only let her works fall out of print, but would also go into used book stores and buy up old copies and destroy them. Her work is now exceedingly rare.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

      6. Sidney Hook wrote too of the very best expositions of Karl Marx ever: Towards The Understanding of Karl Marx (1933) & From Hegel to Marx (1936). Then when he became a Cold Warrior forbade the republication of these excellent books.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

      7. It took years for Hooks' reluctant estate to agree to a republication of Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx. For many years it was available only in a samizdat version.pic.twitter.com/EX11VD4c4z

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Matt Keeley

      8. Even Stephen King has taken a book out of circulation! King's friend Harlan Ellison had a few early books he was embarrassed by. Not only would they not be kept in print, if a fan offered them to be signed Ellison would rip them up!https://twitter.com/mattkeeley/status/1368983687715557382 …

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      Matt Keeley @mattkeeley
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      Stephen King, just about the biggest writer there is, insisted that his novel RAGE go out of print because he believed it had inspired school shootings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(King_novel) …
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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

      9. James Gould Cozzens regarded first three or four novels as an embarrassment and when he became a bestseller in 1950s refused to let them be reprinted. True also of many other writers, notably Mordecai Richler.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Alex Shephard

          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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          The fact that Amazon has a near monopoly on online book sales (both new and used) is the obvious subtext of a lot of the handwringing about cancel culture + books, but the remedy—break Amazon's market dominance—is never really considered pic.twitter.com/2NdFYZwPGX
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        2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 8 Mar 2021
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          Yeah, authors who want their works destroyed at death is one of the great sources of literature when their wishes are disregarded. Indeed, that's so common one wonders whether they actually thought it would happen. Ballers destroy their works while they live.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2021
          Replying to @joshtpm

          Yeah, the failure to destroy while still alive can reasonably be taken as a statement in itself, a revealed preference as the economists say.

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        1. Ted Friedman‏ @tedfriedman 8 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Likewise the great Jewish mystic Rabbi Nachman. Fascinating book on Kafka & Nachman, Burnt Books:https://www.amazon.com/Burnt-Books-Nachman-Bratslav-Encounters/dp/0805242570/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kafka+nachman&qid=1615227692&sr=8-1 …

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        1. Wallingford Riegger‏ @RieggerRie1 8 Mar 2021
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          High school students also want the Aeneid to be destroyed.

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        2. Alan Pennue‏ @PennueAlan 8 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Do we know this? I thought the idea was made up by Hermann Broch.

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        3. Alan Pennue‏ @PennueAlan 8 Mar 2021
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          Not so I learn. But the story may still be fictitious.

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        1. Ben Rosengart‏ @fivetonsflax 8 Mar 2021
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          Don’t forget Gogol.

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