I see John Boyle peaked

[Coyoacan]

I'm not a fan of his and I doubt he ever apologised to Glinner for throwing him under the bus, but the last part of this article is interesting: www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2022/09/10/john-boyne-young-irish-writers-today-are-all-writing-the-same-book-it-bothers-and-offends-nobody/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

a formulaic university novel of “self-involved students who think they are the first people in the world ever to have sex”... He gets in touch later to insist he is not referring to Sally Rooney,

LOL. I enjoy Sally Rooney's novels but really, he's not talking about her? I don't see how you can hear that in the context of Irish writers and not think of her! Maybe she's got a squadron of lesser imitators that I'm unaware of. Anyway that's beside the point.

Interesting... I think he's right about a lot of YA writing these days.

“Over years, I have helped a number of young and new writers and what I have discovered, to my disappointment, is that they will all turn on you when the crowd turns on you,”

I meant to highlight this bit, because it reminds me so much of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's brilliant essay. www.chimamanda.com/news_items/it-is-obscene-a-true-reflection-in-three-parts/

And then there is what happened to Rosie Kay. It seems like a very sad kind of cultural trend, if it is a trend.

Yes, indeed, DarkDayforMN

But I have no respect for that man. He tried to jump on the transgender bandwagon and it bit his arse.

Interesting that he self-flagellates and promises to educate himself when criticised for pissing off trans people, but won't admit that his novels about the Holocaust are pretty offensive to Jews.