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from Tablet Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Cancellation Trilogy<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Jews take the lead in a new literary art form: The cancel-culture novel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY SHELUYANG PENG<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nothing stifles great art like censorship, whether through overt acts by government censors or through acts of pillow-smothering by conformist claques eager to display their virtue. As far as the pillow-smotherers are concerned, it\u2019s no secret that the mainstream publishing houses\u00a0only look to publish<\/a>\u00a0work that conforms to a few preset narratives while robustly censoring anything that tweaks their\u00a0puritanical<\/a>\u00a0orthodoxy. Starting in 2020, when thought-policing in creative fields peaked, publishing houses were often the first to \u201cdo the work\u201d of acquiescing to cancellation mobs and dumping writers who didn\u2019t immediately kowtow to the party line of the day, or simply didn\u2019t check off the right identity boxes. This is not a surprise for an industry that is overwhelmingly made up of affluent liberal arts college-educated tote bag-carriers living in coastal metropolises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any writer worth their salt opposes any movement that seeks to curb free artistic expression, and this includes what we now call\u00a0cancel culture<\/em>\u2014a term that is now said to be \u201cof the right\u201d but which describes something entirely real. The old clich\u00e9 offered to new writers is \u201cwrite what you know,\u201d and any writer minted in this new milieu surely knows about cancel culture. Thus, it\u2019s not a surprise that a new wave of writers has begun to write, often in metafictional tones, about authors stifled by the specter of cancellation. And while some are indeed right wing (which didn\u2019t seem to hurt the fiction of Saul Bellow and Mario Vargas Llosa), others are leftists and old-school liberals of a bygone time and place where free speech\u00a0was held<\/a>\u00a0to be central to progressive intellectual life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Tablet Magazine A Cancellation Trilogy Jews take the lead in a new literary art form: The cancel-culture novel BY SHELUYANG PENG Nothing stifles great art like censorship, whether through overt acts by government censors or through acts of pillow-smothering by conformist claques eager to display their virtue. As far as the pillow-smotherers are concerned, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}