P.c. journalist of literature's status quo. Some call her Mauve Maud. Others call her Maud Mauve. The character makes an appearance toward the end of the new ebook novel, The McSweeneys Gang, authored by myself.
Perfect encapsulator of the herd mind. Social diarist of patrician lit. If you want to know which way the literary weather vane is pointing, who's up and who's down, who's in or who's out, who's worshipped on the highest literary altar and who's stomped into the ground, you consult the Mauve blog.
Stimulating ideas? Upsetting opinions? Dissenting positions? None to be found. The operative word is affirmation. Readers told, "We are the good people, in the know, on the approaches to power." New York. Hip. Approved. Chic. Everybody safe. Everyone happy. The herd affirmed.
The operative word is: Mauve.
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(Next up: A look at a rumored new elitist writers group.)
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