"I have no interest in navigating through displays of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the 1619 Project, woke outbursts, apologetics for Hamas, calls for destroying America and sexual fetish celebrations." Great!
"...while the classics are great, a literate society produces new works or it dies." Hm. How much do we need new works? Most of my reading is thousands of years old. Maybe that's where young men are drawing their inspiration. This happened half a millennium ago in Europe, and they called it a Renaissance. Not a renovation, but a rediscovery of classics.
I read constantly. Always have. I studiously avoid female authors as they all seem to write the same thing. Mainly I read mysteries, history biography. Haven’t read a new fiction or best seller in years.
There are plenty of great 20th century women mystery authors - Christie, PD James, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, to name just a few. Rendell especially wrote some great psychological thrillers, sometimes from the POV of the killer rather than the detective.
I’ll give you those four especially pd James one of my all time favorites. Most new ones write the same plot over and over with too many words spent on ridiculous tear jerker side stories
Here's a fun book written for men by a man (me :-)):
https://www.amazon.com/Al-Wonderland-Cultured-Meeting-Relating-ebook/dp/B08SC1CP5S/ref=sr_1_1
Notice that it's on Amazon Kindle. No need to go the old-line publishing route.
"I have no interest in navigating through displays of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the 1619 Project, woke outbursts, apologetics for Hamas, calls for destroying America and sexual fetish celebrations." Great!
"...while the classics are great, a literate society produces new works or it dies." Hm. How much do we need new works? Most of my reading is thousands of years old. Maybe that's where young men are drawing their inspiration. This happened half a millennium ago in Europe, and they called it a Renaissance. Not a renovation, but a rediscovery of classics.
I read constantly. Always have. I studiously avoid female authors as they all seem to write the same thing. Mainly I read mysteries, history biography. Haven’t read a new fiction or best seller in years.
There are plenty of great 20th century women mystery authors - Christie, PD James, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, to name just a few. Rendell especially wrote some great psychological thrillers, sometimes from the POV of the killer rather than the detective.
I’ll give you those four especially pd James one of my all time favorites. Most new ones write the same plot over and over with too many words spent on ridiculous tear jerker side stories