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[09/02/25] Cruelty in human nature that publishers pretend doesn’t exist

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    • 18th February 2025 at 3:33 pm #4506
      Jason Latnar
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      (Does this count, Matt?)

      Novelist Robert Plunket: ‘There’s a cruelty in human nature that publishers pretend doesn’t exist’. With its “racist, fat-phobic” hero, Plunket’s 1983 classic, My Search for Warren Harding, is the novel our timid times need.

      Warning: Pay Wall

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/robert-plunket-novel-my-search-for-warren-harding/

    • 18th February 2025 at 3:44 pm #4509
      Matthew Brown
      Keymaster

      Yeah, I think this counts (just) – it is an opinion worth talking about at any rate.

    • 18th February 2025 at 4:25 pm #4516
      Toni McHadden
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      Since when are hot takes about needed racism “news”?

      • 18th February 2025 at 4:35 pm #4520
        Matthew Brown
        Keymaster

        On their own, they’re not. This one squeaks by on the grounds that it looks like a book review.

    • 19th February 2025 at 3:16 am #4523
      Matthew Brown
      Keymaster

      Having not read the article (paywall) my instinct is that the columnist is overblowing things as rage bate. As hot takes go, “publishers don’t explore this bit of human nature” seems lukewarm at best.

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