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China, Censorship, and Rupert’s Invisible Hand
By Eric Olsen @2bwriters Poor Rupert. I just read with no small delight that über-agent Andrew Wylie has accused HarperCollins (a Rupert Murdoch possession) of acting in an “unusually shrill and punitive” way toward authors. Much to my added delight, he managed to connect HarperCollins’ “shrill and punitive” behavior with Rupert Murdoch and the current hacking [...]
The Conscience of the Writer
By Eric Olsen At the recent Iowa Writers’ Workshop 75th anniversary celebration, the concluding session was titled “The Writer as Public Figure.” I went with great expectations, silly me, looking forward to an interesting discussion on, I dunno, maybe the writer as “public intellectual?” You know, the writer as someone who writes for a general audience [...]
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