i can imagine all this very well

Deal.
Opening salvo:
Whatever else is going on, it is about how nobody can just be a dick anymore, they have to be a politicized dick.

(1) Write genre from outside of it in, not the inside of it out.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.

Trump came up in the "I Know A Guy" economy. If anybody is well-placed to track down a body he buried that actually matters, its likely a New Yorker

Not because they beat him before, but because they have more experience with him. Which in the case of journalists and the prosecutors in many of his real estate cases, is true in the most literal sense.

No, you can win a thing without having already won it before

Thank you this ruled

Vladimir: *Walks into the scariest ruin in the history of film*
"We'll be safe in here!"

oh my god Giuliani was right CUNY was a mistake

My entire right forearm is classified as evidence so I think yeah

i know those blues

Good idea!

In my defense I was asked for my most unhinged position, so I can only support what I say so far

All avant-garde literature is either Protestant (Hemingway et al) or Catholic (Nabokov et al) and David Foster Wallace killed himself because he had Protestant ethics and Catholic talent.

Kramerbooks is an institution. I almost kicked henry kissinger there