How to Make Art Obsolete

Or, woke/nationalistic/patriarchal/feminist/Christian art is propaganda

Last Thursday, in a near ten thousand word day, I finished the first draft of the novel I’m working on.

The end I’d been barreling toward since the first week of January arrived and it was both softer and harder than I thought it would be. I’ve gone to bed with these characters, dreamed about them, woken up with them, walked with them, talked with them. …