In the past on this blog, I’ve posted round-ups of articles that might help inform a political and economic analysis of the lit world. This makes the third such post, compiled from articles both new and old.
The list is descending by date of publication.
Nine Observations on the Avant-Garde, by Ted Gioia (The Honest Broker, 8.7.24)
PEN America: Cultural Imperialism’s Avant-Garde, by Joe Hall (Community Mausoleum, 7.3.24)
Psycho-Materialism, the Anti-Book, and the Literary-Academic System: On Four RM Haines Chapbooks, by Austin Miles (Community Mausoleum, 5.1.24)
The Myth of the Middle Class Writer, a cluster of five articles at LitHub (April 15-18, 2024)
A Poetics of Living Rebellion, by Nick Barber (Public Books, 4.3.24)
Repoliticizing Aesthetics: A Conversation with Dominique Routhier, by Hugo de Camps Mora (Protean, 3.25.24)
Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide, Fargo Tbakhi (Protean, 12.8.23)
Review: On Zionist Literature, by Ghassan Kanafani, by Dylan Saba (Protean, 7.18.23)
Reading in the Conglomerate Era: Or, Do Small Presses Even Exist?, by Hilary Plum (LARB, 7.4.23)
The Spy Who Funded Me: Revisiting the Congress for Cultural Freedom, by Patrick Iber (LARB, 6.11.17)