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‘Politics’ really is everything - so in a way it is unavoidable, and is important to talk about as authors, but that subject can only be talked about so much on here it would seem.
I don’t think Moshfegh is a literary snob, although certainly I think some publishers are, and perhaps that is part of the problem, but I actually see it as more an issue of an agent or a publisher asking if a book is relevant to current discourse, which I think is what Moshfegh is kind of rejecting the idea of. I could be wrong.
I personally like the more literary or conceptual novel just as much a gen fic, but I do not need it to feel relevant or current to what’s being debated on Twitter etc. and I think that is part of the issue too. Marketability almost sometimes comes before a well written engaging story.
On amorality - I also do not think that line need be taken literally. I think she is saying we need *some* books that go into amoral territory, not *all*. And morality is not black and white, but neither is it scripted.
I don’t think Moshfegh is a literary snob, although certainly I think some publishers are, and perhaps that is part of the problem, but I actually see it as more an issue of an agent or a publisher asking if a book is relevant to current discourse, which I think is what Moshfegh is kind of rejecting the idea of. I could be wrong.
I personally like the more literary or conceptual novel just as much a gen fic, but I do not need it to feel relevant or current to what’s being debated on Twitter etc. and I think that is part of the issue too. Marketability almost sometimes comes before a well written engaging story.
On amorality - I also do not think that line need be taken literally. I think she is saying we need *some* books that go into amoral territory, not *all*. And morality is not black and white, but neither is it scripted.