{"id":1709592,"date":"2022-10-25T03:02:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709592"},"modified":"2022-10-25T03:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:03:13","slug":"its-time-to-save-literature-from-the-woke-publishing-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-time-to-save-literature-from-the-woke-publishing-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time To Save Literature From The Woke Publishing Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-time-to-save-literature-from-the-woke-publishing-industry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709592&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Joyce Carol Oates is a fixture in American letters \u2014 she\u2019s won the National Book Award, two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, the Jerusalem Prize, and she\u2019s been nominated for the Pulitzer five times. She taught at Princeton for 36 years, and is, of course, an outspoken Trump critic. A Google search for \u201cJoyce Carol Oates\u201d and \u201cfeminist\u201d yields more than half a million results.<\/p>\n<p>And even <em>she<\/em> thinks the publishing industry has become intolerably politically correct. On Twitter, she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyceCarolOates\/status\/1582918080769900544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently observed<\/a>, the \u201ccategory of straight white males is the only category remaining for villains &#038; awful people in fiction &#038; film &#038; popular culture.\u201d Oates isn\u2019t alone in observing the problem \u2014 in June, ubiquitous author James Patterson, whose potboilers have sold more than 400 million copies, said white male writers now face \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2022\/06\/14\/james-patterson-white-male-writers-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another form of racism<\/a>\u201d in the woke publishing industry, before he was bullied into backtracking on his comments.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you\u2019ve set foot in a large bookstore recently, what Patterson is saying has obvious merit. On a recent trip to Barnes &#038; Noble, a friend actually took photos and counted up the books on the six new fiction shelves displayed up front. Male authors made up less than 25 percent of the nearly 200 books displayed in the front of the store, and obviously, the percentage of men who were white and\/or heterosexual was notably smaller than that.<\/p>\n<p>Oates and Patterson are only now saying what many men with literary ambitions have long known. Iowa Writers Workshop graduate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobartpulp.com\/web_features\/alex-perez-on-the-iowa-s-writers-workshop-baseball-and-growing-up-cuban-american-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alex Perez recently gave a scorched-earth interview<\/a> to the Hobart Literary Journal where he discussed how male-centric literature was being deliberately shut out of publishing. During the interview, he had some choice words for the woke and disproportionately female gatekeepers of the industry:<\/p>\n<p>These women, perhaps the least diverse collection of people on the planet, decide who is worthy or unworthy of literary representation. Their worldview trickles down to the small journals, too, which are mostly run by woke young women or bored middle-aged housewives. This explains why everything reads and sounds the same, from major publishing houses to vanity zines with a readership of fifteen. The progressive\/woke orthodoxy is the ideology that controls the entire publishing apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>Almost to prove his point, most of the editors of the Hobart Literary Journal resigned in protest over the decision to publish Perez\u2019s interview. As for Perez, he\u2019s mostly given up on his literary ambitions to write cultural and political commentary for publications that don\u2019t neatly hew to center-left orthodoxies, such as Tablet.<\/p>\n<p>The people running publishing have fully confused their profession with their secular religion. Perez isn\u2019t just right that \u201ceverything reads and sounds the same,\u201d but the greater crime is that when literature is culturally and politically homogenized, greatness becomes an outlier. The next Cormac McCarthy could be languishing because they were too busy greenlighting \u201cAnti-Racist Baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If men, along with other important and politically marginalized voices, want to tell stories \u2013there\u2019s going to have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even big-name authors now admit the publishing industry has gotten intolerably woke and hostile to men \u2014 it&#8217;s time for readers to fight back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1468,"featured_media":1709595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}