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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm pp who just posted the AWP, and I thought for sure that it was crazy to say that Ng was somehow really crafting this, but it sounds like there is enough issue in that community, which is pretty sad. I really hope it is a productive conversation. [/quote]

Eh, it will be the same conversation it always is. These conferences always have lots of panels like this and they are pretty repetitive. People are always talking about furthering the conversation but mostly people just talk in circles. [/quote]

If that's the case, what a colossal waste of time. If Chee is done with the incessant chatter, then maybe he should tell his pal Larson to take the damn letter out of her story. Then it would quite literally be over. [/quote]

Agreed. I know people in real life who are friends with Chee. They seem to find him a wonderful person, but I admit his social media presence irritates me. He's a little too self-righteous or something.

I think he doesn't want people discussing this story because it throws too much light on how literary cliques work. [/quote]

It also raises significant questions about the selection of lit fic. I think it is really important to a lot of lit fic authors to believe that they are published and had success because they are objectively good authors. They are the chosen good writers, as demonstrated by how they've been chosen over and over by publishers, by book festivals, by awards committees, etc. But what if it turns out that selection has very little to do with quality, that there is a thumb on the scale, that those selections have a lot less to do with quality and a lot more to do with being picked for admission based on immutable personal characteristics. In other words, that the world of lit fic is as nepotistic and corrupt as any other, that writers who may mercilessly mock the grossly capitalist wall street bankers who only give business to their buddies are actually no different at all from those bankers.

Of course Chee wants to stop talking about this. Of course the blue check writers want to be silent. This entire affair shows the lit fic world as being no different and no better than any other clubby, corrupt industry, and their egos as artists cannot abide by that. [/quote]

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