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Last year, I went to Barns and Noble with a friend, and as usual, there were many tables showing special books for special readers. Some of them were on the lines of “banned books” or “true crime”.
On the second floor, I saw a table that was labeled “Sad Girl Summer”. One of the books under this title was “Play it as it lez” by Joan Didian, which I read about a month ago.
Regarding my memory in the 1960s California, about my memory, about my remembrance, about my remembrance, “Abortion and suicide are among the subjects included in its lean 214 pages.
Maybe it was a mild overlapping, but I felt irritated on the title of Flipant above such a serious book, not to mention other books by women next to it. Read as “Sad Girl Summer”, and was likely, a buzzy sales was higher than a real advertisement of serious women’s literature.
Several months ago, singer-song Athel Cain created a tumbller post, in which what to do for “irony epidemic” art. She describes keeping her heart and soul in albums that deal with religious trauma, femininity and relationships, and then get countless comments that are poor thought-outs-outs, flipants and devoid of substance.
I am not trying to scold random people online to make jokes, because I don’t think jokes themselves are problems. I agree with Cain that sometimes, time and space is wrong, and art, especially as well as well as well as weakened and weakened as it, is treated with a degree of honesty. Is.
I wonder what it says about the present moment that the publication industry has taken this “ironic epidemic”. Important female writers such as Didian, Marlo Granados, Isabel Olende, Tony Morrison, Virginia Wolf and other people are monuments in their territory, “Sad Girls” or not.
What does the present moment say that they reduce so easily for stock characters? Why are buyers and sellers ready to dilute clickable buzzwords to important and complex books?
There is warning that intelligent marketing is necessary to draw readers, and I do not want to jump to conclusion despite my annoyance. The “Sad Girl Summer” is a flipant, and it is not very enough, but I cannot say that it is morally incorrect, or it is not a fun or brief description.
Everything about art is not needed to be serious, and advertising cannot be expected to portray all complications of a task in a line. Especially since it is not a direct response to the authors themselves, it is not necessarily an abusive wave, as it can occur when it is particularly directed on the artist.
The prevalence of irony in modern humor is also not naturally wrong. Sometimes laughing on serious subjects is healthy, and this trend is in the heart of “dark humor” which is successful or practical.
Comedy television, in my opinion, is an example of humor combined with darkness. The characters in comedy are often absurd, immoral and selfish, and yet their entertaining qualities soften their edges, inviting the audience to give grace to them and their fellow humans.
All this is being said, I still emphasize some marketing strategy and online discourse around books. There seems to be a strange desire to ignore serious themes in favor of Quips.
Perhaps there is a kind of concern around honesty and honesty, as these qualities reveal real commitment to ideas. The Internet has also introduced a different type of “meditation economy”, which forces the creators and advertisers to compete for focus and faster rates.
It is somewhat disturbing that a thin version of a large effort is often more attractive, and these strategy is more with corporate interests than artistic interests. If I were a working artist, I would feel a little less than the irony epidemic or not, if I were a working artist or not.
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