Another Recent Comment of Mine at Lit Mag News

 This one was posted July 5th, in response to an article titled "How Do We Spot Scammy Lit Mags and Presses?"

Hi. For what it's worth, Paris Review does receive money from venture capital. Per this source-- https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/paris-review-foundation,134081729/-- Paris Review has assets over $11,000,000. Recent donors include the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which was founded in 2006 with donations by multi-billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Reed Hastings, among others. (Let's not forget also that the same publication notoriously was founded in 1950 with monies from the CIA, a fact which came out decades later.) What would a Mark Zuckerberg gain from indirectly funding a literary magazine? Like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and a couple others, he's worth $200 billion-with-a-b. Money to burn. These guys are out to control every aspect of society-- see Peter Thiel, patron of J.D. Vance, and HIS involvement with the cultural world c/o Dimes Square and other trendy happenings. Yeah, there are a lot of scamsters in every aspect of America at the moment. But some are small-time grifters, while others are very, very big players.

Ahead of the Curve

THE ULA ONCE AGAIN PROVEN RELEVANT

I note the Joel Whitney article in Salon.com regarding the CIA/Paris Review connection. His article has been further addressed by the likes of Jennifer Schuessler at the New York Times Arts Beat blog, by Alex Halperin on twitter, and others. Golly gee, where was this kind of coverage when the Underground Literary Alliance addressed the issue in 2005 and 2007?? We took a lot of heat over the matter, were supported by no one in the established literary world, and were effectively blackballed. Yet, as with our populist protests, precursors to both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, we were far ahead of the zeitgeist.

This once again shows that more important than what's said in American culture, is who's saying it-- whether or not you're one of the Approved. Truth is a secondary concern.