If you listened to the last episode of Citations Needed, you heard that the CIA funneled money into into cultural institutions like the Iowa Writers Workshop and the Paris Review to win the cultural war against communism. Much of this led to the emphasis on first-person writing and a focus on individual experience.
I don't know about you comrades, but I got Ds throughout secondary (high school) in English. I fucking hated 20th century lit. Are there any pretentious and overly individualistic writers that you blame on the CIA?
F Scott Fitzgerald because his "great Gatsby" book is supposedly a criticism of being materialistic and American attitudes and stuff but like....
it sucks and isn't really like no shit money didn't make these losers happy
long before the CIA
i think it has nice imagery like T J Ecklebergs Eyes
The story is trash. The aesthetic is kinda dope tho
art deco do be like that
…I don’t think we read the same book
More like Great Shatsby