YES! YES! YES! Mother Ursula!!!! ...We will need writers who can remember freedom, poets, visionaries. The realists of a larger reality...Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profits and advertising revenue is not quite the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship...Yet I see sales departments given control over editorial...writers threatened by corporate fatwa..And i see a lot of us, the producers, accepting this. letting commodity proffitteers sell us like deodorant. tell us what to say and what to write... Profit motive is often at conflicts with the aim of art. We live in capiatlism, its power seems inescapable--so did the Divine Right of Kings. Any human power can be resited and changed by human beings. Resistance and change very often begin in OUR art--the art of words...I really dont want to watch American Literature get sold down the river... Ursula K. Le Guin accepts the National Book Foundations Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 65th National Book Awards on November 19, 2014. https://youtube/watch?v=Et9Nf-rsALk#t=112
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:44:52 +0000
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