Q: Whew—white folks! Are you crazy?
A: I don’t think so
Q: What would your employer have done if they
read what you were writing about them, about work, about corporate
A: They didn’t read it.
Q: What did publishers think, when you asked them if they’d like to see a manuscript?
A: They didn’t read it.
I guess they could tell from the query letter they weren’t interested.
Q: What did the people who read you on the Internet say?
A: Joy Rothke said,
Jack: Please give it a rest. Your endless rants about the idiots who don't appreciate your art are so fucking tiresome.
And Stan Matters said,
There's nothing to argue. You enjoy his writing. I don't. When you request further detail on WHY Saunders sucks, I don't know what more I can tell you; there are only so many ways to say "sucks." Will you be convinced if I tell you I can read twenty paragraphs of Saunders and still have no idea what he's on about (except how great a writer he is)? Will you see my point of view if I explain that he is not merely NOT a great writer, not a good writer, not an average writer, not even anywhere near talented enough to be called merely a BAD writer, but is in my opinion almost without peer, one of the worst writers I have ever had the displeasure to have read?
Q: That’s it?
A: Yep.
Q: That’s tough to take.
A: Would you take Joy Rothke serious?
Would you take Stan Matters serious?
Q: I guess not.
No, probably not.
A: Why would I?