So I read a very interesting interview today, written on a site called HOBART, where the interviewer was talking to a Cuban-American writer by the name of Alex Perez. He attended the Iowa writers program which is one of the best ones around. He gave his impression of what it was like being middle-class Cuban-American in among all those elite Ivy-league rich White boys. A different take on life for this middle-class White-boy—oaky, Old Man by now (I’m 64 in case you didn’t know). But like every young boy he had dreams of becoming a professional baseball player (up here in Canada, it’s hockey, but it’s the same thing.) So writing wasn’t his first choice.
As I was reading it, I was reminded of my own son’s take on how today’s Culture has shifted. He (Perez) was talking about the publishing industry and how it was now run by middle-age White women who came into it with a “Woke” attitude. Now, I’ve always dismissed it when my son told me how Hollywood has changed by wanting to show the emp…
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