Apropos—at least in an oblique, if dazzling way—of our ongoing conversations about which texts to read and which to teach and which to write, this statistic I stumbled across today in the latest issue of Poets & Writers:
Last year a total of 172,000 books were published in the United States, a number that represents a ten percent decrease from the year before.
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i'm still thinking about this, and trying to decide if that's a BAD thing, since so much motherfucking trash is published commercially that some part of me wishes it would continue to dwindle until the books published requiring a mind had currency again.
and i use that word currency very deliberately in a high capitalist moment.
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