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Tuesday Night Acoustic: Maneli Jamal - Movement III - on the Run

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Vicious Babushka5/30/2012 9:36:06 am PDT

re: #424 Obdicut

But most ‘actual poor people’ who work those jobs don’t tend to even think about writing a book about it. Books tend to get written by the book-writing class.

Books tend to get published by people who have connections in the book-publishing industry. Poor people who have written books (in their spare time when they’re not working their 3 jobs) can’t find a literary agent who will give them the time of day.

I think it kind of sucks when somebody who is not a member of a certain class, pretends to be one and then claims to speak in the name of that class.