"First they came for Sherwood Anderson..."
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love the pic. Kempton cameo
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If nothing else this reminded me to read The Car Thief and how Vintage Contemporaries used to publish some real bangers in the 80s
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Yeah, it was a great list. I had a lot of those books.
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“Whatever I read in grad school is sacred canon, and if anyone changes the reading list it’s Cancel Culture.”
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Read "The White Negro" 11 years ago, stunned by its facile mythmaking, equating romanticized violence with a (white man's idea of) men of color. Startling peek into the fetishized views of African-American machismo during the beatnik era. 2022 takeaway: Hipsters were racist, too.
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And to the well-argued point of this piece: we should be reading Mailer, particularly his incendiary essays, to better grasp the decade reductively (mis) characterized as "the Eisenhower years." The seeds of the romanticized 60s were complex, as were intellectuals like Mailer.
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As you mention, one of the great shifts is the distinction between 'literary' and 'genre' writing breaking down, suddenly letting many worthies into the canon, which leaves less room for the likes of Mailer.
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Mungo Jerry has been cancelled. I am incensed.
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how, exactly, does one "cancel" a dead person?
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First off you'll need a shovel
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