@alicegoldfuss ("malice ghoulpus") retweeted:
@snackowska ("snackowski") wrote:
when my parents lived in the eastern bloc they read literature. when they moved here, the reading of literature soon ebbed, because in this society there is no time & every second you spend not working is one more rip in the thin netting that keeps you from falling into the abyss
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@brouillettese ("Sarah Brouillette") wrote:
It matters, I think, how you explain literature's decline. Bad critics & profs? Wrong objects of analysis? Hot new media? Or is it: poverty, debt, tuition, worklessness, and the anxiety of being shouldered with the whole burden of trying to "make a living"?