For those arguing that this isn’t a thing, consider that even though Don’t Look Up was supposedly a blistering satire about COVID and/or climate change, it mentioned neither COVID nor climate change.
https://twitter.com/sim_kern/status/1484559461675155466
Naming a few best-selling authors as exceptions is not the dunk you think it is. I know there are exceptions and clifi gets published sometimes—my whole career is an exception. And I’ve also run into many publishing professionals who will point blank tell you “don’t write this.”
This article came out a month ago: google.com/amp/s/www.lati…
And I’m just going to head off whoever is going to accuse me of not understanding allegory and ask sure, but why was that needed? If these weren’t effectively unmentionable, then where are the non-allegorical representations of the two greatest global crises of our lives?
No one wants me to be wrong about this more than me
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