"Careerism" is what opens up literature to women, to people of color, to the working class. Writing, for millennia the province of the elite, whether aristocratic or clerical, only becomes democratized by being a career.
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Tangential to the careerist complaint, there is Norman Podhoretz's amazing 1972 argument that the problem with Philip Roth is that he was too PMC (professional-managerial class).pic.twitter.com/ePtPyntBNB
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Are we still calling people sellouts in 2021? Did someone time travel from the 90s? Making a living as an artist is HARD and I’d licensing your song for a commercial gets you there, great. Do that.
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Yes, everyone with a day job who writes is an aristocrat.
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My favorite example of an aristocratic hobbyist, on account of slavery preventing her having a career, is Phillis Wheatley.
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Wait until they hear about having a side-hustle in academia just for the health insurance....
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This is the problem with MFA programs in a nutshell.
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