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A review by cynstagraphy
The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon by Dana Schwartz
3.0
A catalogue of white supremacy, misogyny, pretentiousness and boredom in literature. A satire outing the worst of the worst in Western writers and readers. It does get a bit lazy in the repetitiveness and clichés, but that is what white men with MFAs are like (and, as a person of a "funny tinge", I can confirm a lot of white women are like this too). There are patterns on subjects and behaviours from those who are chosen to be literary canon gods by people with a lot of power who project themselves onto the work and the artist's lives. Behind most "starving artists", there are trust funds, a nobility title and/or a hard working woman. These patterns repeat themselves through the decades, no matter how "woke" or "cancel culture/politically correct" the establishment apparently gets. Mediocrity, abuse and bigotry always win.