Establishment Cronyism in the "Independent" Literary Scene

King Wenclas of Attacking the Demi-Puppets makes some keen insights on the literary industry and its interrelationship with education and government. I enjoy his blog very much, even though he tears David Berman a new one, a poet I hitherto liked the work of. King Wenclas also acts as Publicity Director for the controversial watchdog group Underground Literary Alliance.

Check out these posts for a scathing indictment of Harpers, David Berman of Open City Books, the NY upper-crust overclass writing cliques and the literary industry as a whole as he poses the question Who Owns Literature?: Ben Marcus and Establishment Cronyism and Ben Marcus and Test Tube Literature and the conclusion is here. Enjoy!