14. Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the most important magazine writers in America. But he used to be a university drop-out with scruffy resume
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15. Is Kay willing to follow Carr's example and mentor writers from working class & non-white backgrounds?
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16. One answer is to look at the writers Kay says he wants to bring to the Walrus: Conrad Black, Rex Murphy, and Colby Cosh.
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17. Conrad Black was born to enormous wealth (which he dissipated). Rex Murphy is a CBC star & moonlights, lucratively, as climate denier.
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18. Colby Cosh is like Black and Murphy a white male conservative. He's also previously written for The Walrus.
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19. Literary tastes differ. I think Black and Murphy are shoddy writers. Cosh can turn a phrase.
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20. But leaving literary quality to one side, these are not discoveries on the order of Coates (or Cobb or Bass or Drumming)
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21. I admit I write about all this with a certain personal bias.
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22. I wouldn't call myself working class because I'm fundamentally lazy. I try to avoid work as much as I can.
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23. But for the record my grandparents were all peasant farmers in India, my dad drove cabs & my mom cleaned hospital linen.
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24. So by the logic of Jon Kay, I shouldn't be a writer. And it is true that Canadian media circles make me uncomfortable.
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