WRITER is diatribe. It’s in the tradition of Philip Wylie’s Generation of Vipers, Hunter S. Thompson’s Generation of Swine, and Joe Bageant’s Deer Hunting with Jesus.
Philip Wylie said
he read Time magazine to keep abreast
of the biases. I read Time to see what’s on television. To see what book
To me, Walden, Specimen Days, and Bartleby the Scrivener are diatribe.
Apropos of days, WRITER was posted daily, on the worldwide web, in real time. A day in the life of a gonzo journalism after everybody has a home page.
I have ten
readers. Possibly 20. The Buzzard Cult, I call them, after the
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, a revitalization movement that swept the
High-one-, low-two-figures.
The Buzzard Cult isn’t no cult, it’s a very small cult.