The Business: It's Not Just The West With Useless Establishments

My colleague Cheah Kit Sun wrote a great post about the state of mainstream literature in his country of Singapore. It's up at the PulpRev blog and you should read it, assuming that you haven't already. (You should also follow him on Twitter.)

I'm pointing this out because Cheah's putting light on a situation many of us think to be confined to the West: gatekeeping in the institutions of literature working contrary to the interests of a healthy national literary culture. That Singapore's gatekeeping isn't the same as that of the New York City-London axis doesn't mean that it isn't gatekeeping or that it's done for bad ends, though I would not be surprised if the Wokeness meme disease wasn't trying to worm its way in like the zombie virus it is.

The conclusion Cheah makes holds for a lot of us with similarly useless establishments. We didn't choose the Pulp Way. It chose us. The symbolism of such a revelation coming on Good Friday, that synchronicity, shouldn't be ignored. Good luck, Godspeed, and may all your stories be worthy of succeeding the Pulps of old.