I rarely ghost people pitching me but I remember this editor asking for some muscle content so I proposed a story (abt Bob Paris, Sam Fussell, et al., later ran in the PR) about some issues related to masculinity and they wrote back "cool, so issues related to toxic masculinity"
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I had already walked this beat and knew gaslighting and Donald Trump couldn't be far behind as parts of the story, so I left it there. The finished story, in the Paris Review, says nothing about those buzzword termshttps://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/03/20/muscle-smoke-mirrors/ …
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Replying to @leftyotter
Yeah, that editor (Dan Piepenbring, who was great) left it completely alone, and the result was a piece that covered a lot of ground and reporting while remaining haunting, distant, and abstract (much like living within such an ill fitting suit of armor felt for those guys)
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Definitely. Too many essays now are way too didactic and lacking in tone/symbolism/anything that makes writing interesting. I blame academia for this.
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With each passing year, the need to "moralize" per current smart set norms becomes greater, too. Even authors who may have steered clear of that now find themselves weighing in. The result is pathetic, like how bearded late career Letterman - the king of distance - became woke
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Sometimes there's just the subject being discussed, and plenty to say about it even if no universal truth can be gleaned from it
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