the gatekeepers are failing, so why not get rid of them altogether? — but setting that matter aside for a moment, how did it come to this? When did American fiction become a specialty pursuit, or more importantly (and here I am forced to wave away a bunch of arguments, also very popular on this platform, about MFAs, about how no one wants to publis... See more

there are three cultural ‘roles’ that people are commonly divided into, namely ‘producer’, ‘participant’, and ‘observer’. In recent years, as social media has taken over so much of our social lives, the role of cultural participant feels as if it’s fading away. Herded into the opposing camps of producer and observer, we feel increasingly under pres... See more