Sorry but the NYT list is not an award. The subject in question was the PEN awards and, contrary to your assertions, all the major literary awards are heavily imbued with oppressor-colonialist wokeness. If you are blind to that it's because you inhabit the same echo chamber of epistemic closure. The titles and authors you list are not of…
Sorry but the NYT list is not an award. The subject in question was the PEN awards and, contrary to your assertions, all the major literary awards are heavily imbued with oppressor-colonialist wokeness. If you are blind to that it's because you inhabit the same echo chamber of epistemic closure. The titles and authors you list are not of the caliber I choose to waste time on. I've no interest in pulp fiction or "series literature". Number of sales means diddly squat to me. And my frustration with the anti-white racist attitudes of the book awards is not, as you unfairly presume, a function of my lack of appetite for non-white literature. Among my favorite authors are Jhumpa Lahiri, Khaled Housseini, Gabriel Marquez, Chang-rae Lee, Yann Martel, V.S. Naipal, and too many other non-white authors to list. You seem too thick to perceive that the issue is not that I feel threatened by non-white literature, it is that the assessment of the quality of literature has fallen into the hands of idiots obsessed with unoriginal endless reiterations of the same tired theme. Consequently, the useful purpose that book awards used to provide is gone. Your jumping so eagerly onto my comments relishing your chance to virtue signal your open-mindedness is the opposite of what you presume. You're less an "author" than a comment section troll.
Sorry but the NYT list is not an award. The subject in question was the PEN awards and, contrary to your assertions, all the major literary awards are heavily imbued with oppressor-colonialist wokeness. If you are blind to that it's because you inhabit the same echo chamber of epistemic closure. The titles and authors you list are not of the caliber I choose to waste time on. I've no interest in pulp fiction or "series literature". Number of sales means diddly squat to me. And my frustration with the anti-white racist attitudes of the book awards is not, as you unfairly presume, a function of my lack of appetite for non-white literature. Among my favorite authors are Jhumpa Lahiri, Khaled Housseini, Gabriel Marquez, Chang-rae Lee, Yann Martel, V.S. Naipal, and too many other non-white authors to list. You seem too thick to perceive that the issue is not that I feel threatened by non-white literature, it is that the assessment of the quality of literature has fallen into the hands of idiots obsessed with unoriginal endless reiterations of the same tired theme. Consequently, the useful purpose that book awards used to provide is gone. Your jumping so eagerly onto my comments relishing your chance to virtue signal your open-mindedness is the opposite of what you presume. You're less an "author" than a comment section troll.