tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post4534884234859297468..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: ResentmentsKing Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-7282733204839119022008-06-21T14:42:00.000-07:002008-06-21T14:42:00.000-07:00p.s. I offer here necessary balance to the vast co...p.s. I offer here necessary balance to the vast conformist noise of the so-called literary mainstream. No, it's not the same-old same-old.King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-66495126838369371832008-06-21T14:40:00.000-07:002008-06-21T14:40:00.000-07:00??? Hard to verify any of this without names. Work...??? Hard to verify any of this without names. Working class writers ARE published-- Ray Carver the classic case. What compromises to their art are made?<BR/>Anyway, try thinking logically. To say that Ivy League writers are wildly overrepresented in American lit isn't to say all Ivy League writers are published. two different things.<BR/>Larry Richette, as a matter of fact, attended Columbia.<BR/>I'm looking at broad trends, and how they work to the detriment of literature today.<BR/>(Surely you're not denying the effects of the class system in this country?)King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-16316480040684473532008-06-21T06:27:00.000-07:002008-06-21T06:27:00.000-07:00Simply resentful? Beggar the thought. But let me...Simply resentful? Beggar the thought. But let me see if I understand the situation. See, I know a guy who went to Brown. Comes from a very wealthy and well-positioned family in the South. But his novel is unpublished. I mean, what gives? Is he retarded or something? I've been reading this blog for a few weeks and it seems like if you graduate from an ivy league school they just hand you a publishing contract on graduation if you declare that you want to be a writer. There's another guy I know who dropped out of college, he's from a working-class background, and he gets published all the time. Every time I pick up a magazine or an anthology, there the prick is! Are these the "exceptions that prove the rule"?<BR/><BR/>I also am shocked, shocked to hear that the underground zeensters are banning you too. Especially shocked, shocked to hear--based on all the evidence presented, with fairness and balance, here--that they are "small-minded." Perhaps they're actually CIA moles, working through their PEN controllers? Just a thought.cshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05806652527848272818noreply@blogger.com