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∞ Katılım Haziran 2007
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luc@theYoungLuc·
lucrioual.com new site & two zines for sale! 1) a 20,000 word essay about the reviews of sally rooney's "beautiful world," a novel i have not read! 2) a short story about winning a book prize for an unpublished, uncompleted novel! free PDF if only curious!
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@schuy_ler hahahahahahahahahhah
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Schuyler Mitchell@schuy_ler·
sigh, if only there were a leftist magazine that could publish a package of critical essays examining the financial difficulties of being a writer in 2026, and the material forces that got us here…
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luc@theYoungLuc·
and here's a kicker: of the gifts, one party alone gave $1,302,500. i don't think one should comment on the financial choices of literary nonprofits without first reading through their tax filings, it just seems like the polite thing to do.
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luc@theYoungLuc·
once again arguing about the finances of a magazine whose taxes are available for all to read—the baffler made $77,331 in 2024 after expenses. of their revenue, $2,100,569 came from gifts and $358,972 from sales, total: $2,465,764. they spent $2,388,433, EOY net assets: $144,494.
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Ryan Alexanderplatz@ryanhasbadtaste·
Helen DeWitt can’t figure out wifi and zoom and usb mics but none of us could write the last samurai
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luc@theYoungLuc·
all this, & the winners finding out they were a 2nd choice is overlooking the fact that dozens & dozens of writers deserve awards like the WC, and one person's win isn't indicative of anything more than a lack of resources, not talent, skill, vision, or hard work.
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luc@theYoungLuc·
people pointing to other writers who could've or would've gone about this differently like people are interchangeable. people aren't bananas, you fucking nitwits! still: salute to AES and GR, great writers who were given and deserve the award; anyone claiming HD's openness about
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luc@theYoungLuc·
the callous lack of generosity some people have shown for helen dewitt is mind boggling, as though a person who has been incredibly, radically open about their struggles with publishing, writing, money, you name it, would just give up all that money on fucking principle? come on!
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luc@theYoungLuc·
@LingoUnbound Potentially written by Gordon Lish himself; he wrote a lot of the jacket copy for books he edited at Knopf, but this one feels slightly more reserved than his others
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machine gun kelly reichardt@LingoUnbound·
Obsessed with the absolutely insane jacket copy from the first edition of Cathedral
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luc@theYoungLuc·
frankly, i think you do far more speculating than "intricate analysis and critique"; hell, your opening is imagining Lolita marked & rewritten by an MFA (cliché). & yr og tweet is even semantically askew: "main argument..is an..analysis"? like, i get it, but you didn't write it.
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luc@theYoungLuc·
i think few would disagree w/you the industry has contracted and that MFAs maybe have to do with it, but i think even fewer, from the whole, would think DFW the best effigy or McC the best exemplar; the same feels true if your problem is the "emasculation" of "literature".
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luc@theYoungLuc·
nick (like hem's Adams) one of the problems is you're victim to your own comments below, too, not on a stylistic level but a rhetorical/promotional one, using mccarthy's two dismissive words about IJ, and IJ itself, to smuggle your finger-pointing screed, and, but, hey, it works!
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What I find so interesting is that this article has generated a lot of predictable vitriol for the opinions it reveals. However, the main argument of my article is an intricate analysis and critique of the monopoly capitalism at the heart of the “publishing-industrial complex,” and the sociological conformity therein. No one so far has engaged with this new analysis. Maybe try reading it :)

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luc@theYoungLuc·
@NewPopLit @daniel_lefferts the problem is entirely downstream of writing itself or writing programs, and a product of agents and editors beholden to bottom lines, ie the question of whether or not an accessible market exists for the writing in question; it's a sales problem and writers are the scapegoats
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luc@theYoungLuc·
@NewPopLit @daniel_lefferts dan's right—we went to the same program diff years; in 2014 CU graduated ~55 ppl in fiction of which ~9 have pubbed books, less than half of whom pubbed with workshopped books, most writing for years on their own, even failing to sell multiple books in the meantime w/fancy agents
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luc@theYoungLuc·
@HuntClancy i've seen it claimed angleton wrote his yale thesis on eliot, but haven't been able to find it; curious if you've ever come across a sourced mention of it? / curious if you've ever seen anything, not just anecdotal, re CIA wanting to trans. 'four quartets' and drop them in USSR?
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TheHuntForTomClancy@HuntClancy·
cannot recommend this book highly enough
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dumbfounded more people don't talk about mike nichols / elaine may etc. Primary Colors
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