I’m a media studies scholar, educator, and academic administrator. I’m most interested in reading crime fiction, SF, and non-fiction about music, media, history, and the US west.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by American writer James M. Cain. The novel was successful …
Enjoying this so far as a good, stark reality check on the fate of artists today. Written pre-pandemic and pre-AI, so the situation is even worse today. Sobering but necessary stuff for those of us in the arts or arts-adjacent.