Re: Cap's bad old days :)
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:49:13 -0500 (EST)
Will, if the next JD Salinger were a 20 year old woman on welfare she'd
have academics like you tripping all over themselves to discover her
first :) Talk about a cash cow. . .I can see it now. First, the little
literary journals. Then, publication in, oh, any of a host of empathetic
mags. There's a big market in America for victim literature. Give me
ten minutes with my 1999 writer's market and I'll give you ten listings.
>From there, the slicks...guest speaking engagements at Chicago University
and Duke.
Gawd, I wonder if I can be her agent? Bring on the welfare moms :)
But, of course, most academics would rather complain about capitalism
than hold creative writing workshops in the inner city :)
Speaking as one living less than ten miles from the annual Zora Neal
Hurston Festival....
Seriously, my point was that under any system that same woman would have
the same obstacles to overcome in order to get published. It's a rare
person who has publishing opportunities pushed under their noses or
shoved down their throats. I don know one or two for whom that's
happened, of course, and resent them properly for it :)
Jim
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999 12:38:17 -0700 (MST) WILL HOCHMAN
<hochman@uscolo.edu> writes:
>Camille, I enjoyed and supported your critique and think it does
>belong on
>this list...Holden and his suticase incident for one thing, make me
>think
>Salinger was likely to understand wealth as part of our culture's
>vulgarity, and I think you are smart to know that there's more to the
>marketplace than merit...
>
>Ever read "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" by Alice Walker? Does
>anyone realize what art is lost to poverty...the next J.D. Salinger
>may be
>on welfare and caring for three kids before she's twenty.
>
>will
>
>
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