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It’s career suicide, colleagues tell me, to speak out against the literary establishment; they’ll smear you. But never mind. I’m too old and too invisible to said establishment to care.
— Deborah Copaken Kogan ‧ My So-Called 'Post-Feminist' Life in Arts and Letters
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker reports colleagues' warning that criticizing the literary establishment invites smears and could wreck a career. Then they wave the danger aside, saying age and being overlooked by that establishment leave them free to speak. The tone is wry, defiant and mildly bitter.
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