A writer's career can be rooted in real power or in fake power. Real power is better.
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A few weeks ago, Compact published an article—“The Vanishing White Male Writer”—about how there’s no white men writing literary fiction anymore.
A few weeks ago, Compact published an article—“The Vanishing White Male Writer”—about how there’s no white men writing literary fiction anymore. I found this article insanely funny, because of the following graf: The more thoughtful pieces on this subject tend to frame the issue as a crisis of literary masculinity, the inevitable consequence of an insular, female-dominated publishing world. All true, to a point. But while there are no male Sally Rooneys or Ottessa Moshfeghs or Emma Clines—there are no white Tommy Oranges or Tao Lins or Tony Tulathimuttes. After years of masculinity…
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