x.Félix_de_Fomento.x on Nostr: "In a lengthy piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education, writing professor Eric ...

"In a lengthy piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education, writing professor Eric Bennett makes a case that the Iowa program, arguably the most influential force in modern American literature, was profoundly shaped by a CIA-backed effort to promote a brand of literature that trumpeted American individualism and materialism over airy socialistic ideals. Read: More Hemingway, less Dos Passos."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3vg3/how-the-cia-turned-american-literature-into-a-content-farm
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