It's entitled"This is Not a Set of Predictions, but These Conditions Will Shape the Course of 2018."
Those conditions are the North Korean threat, the obliteration of gender, the reality versus the perception of tax reform, and the extreme unlikelihood that Donald Trump will mature.
Hey, I see The Dave Eggera is paying his 5 bucks a month to blog there too.
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ReplyDeleteShould I know who Dave Eggers is? I don't pay anything to blog there. I get paid.
ReplyDeleteYes if you kept up with American literature you would know who Dave Eggers is
ReplyDeleteGet paid to blog? Well, thanks for the freebie
ReplyDeleteYep, got my first automatic deposit into my account this week.
ReplyDeleteRe: Eggars: Consider me edified. Does indeed seem like a creative powerhouse. Seems to lean kind of left - and has a brother Bill who seems to lean right (Manhattan Institute, Reason Foundation). The whole family is apparently intellectually lively.
ReplyDeleteWill have to start checking them out.
I also recently became aware of another contemporary novelist that I want to check out further, Jonathan Franzen. The keyboardist in the band I'm currently in turned me on to him. I'm rather intrigued that after one of his works won the Oprah Book Club award, he was concerned that men wouldn't read it, which prompted Winfrey to rescind the award - which then led to a big boost in sales and critical attention.
ReplyDeleteEggars had to raise his little brother Bill after both their parents died in the same year, and this was the subject of his break-out work--A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Seems like Bill rebelled a bit.
ReplyDeleteFranzen is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker if that intrigues you any. And, yeah, anything Oprah will get you on many radars. The # of readers may be dwindling but of the crafting of words there seems to be no end. It's still the best way to think and learn and those who do so in abundance reap some wisdom if not American dollars.
Re medium. I see, they want you to pay $5.00/mo for the privilege of reading you paid authors. In an age when we can access free materials (including complete current issues of hundreds of periodicals) on-line from our goddam socialist public libraries, if I might ask, what and how do they pay?
ReplyDeleteI’ll confess I don’t completely understand the model. You’re right; with all the high-quality content by established writers out there for free, who is willing to pay to read works by aspirants? If I get a handle on the formula, I’ll let you know
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