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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you to the writer PPs who shed light on Tin House and the relative positions of Dorland and Larson. I’m a coward, shy, wannabe writer, and even I thought, way to go, Dawn, when I flicked over that detail days ago.

I’m mulling over the point a different poster (I think?) made about jealousy, and the sense that the CMs believed Dorland had no entitlement to any real opportunities in literary fiction. I think this is correct. I think there’s a certain kind of poison that some of those writers are drinking and eagerly serving up to everyone in their grimy little crew. It’s beyond some right-wing nut job thing about identity politics but there’s an element of that there, where trawling your parents or grandparents lives or god forbid, your own, is innately more legit than attempting research because research is based on ossified power structures over how history is told etc.

Or - or! - maybe that crew is only really suited to memoir turned into fiction lite, and they thought Vance and Westover have already told all the stories. It’s all hilarious in how unimaginative and petty the thinking seems to have been in that circle.  Didn’t someone, maybe pages and pages ago, refer to Tom Wolfe advising all writers to turn to research and to live before just trying to write? To avoid that solipsism? I dunno.[/quote]

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