2. Yet as sympathetic as I am with Moshfegh's rejection of fiction being placed under a political mandate, I'm not so confident that it's easy for so social an art form as the novel to escape arguing with the world.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/morality-tales?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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In her rather pedestrian "My Year of Rest and Relaxation," she certainly fail to practice what she preaches.
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Fiction writing may become the last place to explore the diversity of human thought and experience in a world with more censorship imposed by those controlling the media.
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There is less censorship today than at any other time in American history.
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I think she's right on.
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“The novel as a tool of social betterment” reeks of John Gardner’s “On Moral Fiction” (1978)—a perspective William Gass deftly eviscerates here:https://medium.com/the-william-h-gass-interviews/william-h-gass-interviewed-by-thomas-leclair-with-john-gardner-1979-e6de4d424107 …
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