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William Green's avatar

Your mastery of intricate analysis is far beyond anything I can hope to match—your framing razor-sharp and intellectually generous. But still, I wonder whether the contrast between “literary author” and “publicly traded brand” overstates what may be a repackaging of an old tension. Haven’t writers always had to balance artistic ambition with public performance, even if the mediums have changed? The stakes feel timely—not entirely new, but brought into sharper focus by the clarity of your rendition here.

You’ve sharpened the terms of the debate in a way I recognize every time I myself write—even this response, which I want to be both honest and compelling to someone other than me.

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John Raisor's avatar

We are selling ourselves in everything that we do. Im working very hard to focus on connecting with people rather than merely extracting money from them.

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