"On the day President Trump is inaugurated, thousands of writers in the United States will express their indignation.“A writer,” the journalist Martha Gellhorn told the second congress, “must be a 'man' of action now; one who has not lost or wasted time! If you should survive such action, what you have to say about it afterwards is the truth, is necessary and real, and it will last.” Her words echo... that the menace of rapacious power — rampant long before the rise of Trump — has been accepted by writers, many of them privileged and celebrated, and by those who guard the gates of literary criticism, and culture, including popular culture, is uncontroversial. Not for them the impossibility of writing and promoting literature bereft of politics. Not for them the responsibility to speak out, regardless of who occupies the White House."
At www.counterpunch.org
