Today in my newsfeed there are all kinds of articles telling me that Brandon Sanderson is actually awesome and that Wired article about him is super mean.
Except, it's really not. Read anything Foster-Wallace has written about anyone, ever.
To imagine that this is some kind of hit piece or takedown is, frankly, weird and, honestly, stupid.
The Wired article is what happens when a good, but powerless, writer is given the impossible assignment of making rich-guy nerd crap look cool.
My god, internet defenders of literally everything bad, take a weekend to read "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" before filling space with yet more nonsense about poor, beleaguered, B. Sanderson.
The Wired article is funny. It's intended to be funny. It's about a millionaire writer who cranks out crap for people who like to eat crap.
That's okay. Sometimes we like to eat crap, especially in America. It doesn't need to be defended.
I've never heard of Brandon Sanderson, or read any of his books. But this author - this Jason Kehe - is tragically, completely, unutterably wrong in one thing:
"I hate The Greatest Showman, and especially Hugh Jackman."
@ScottSoCal Lol -- fair enough.
I think it's okay, (even good), to be wrong about one thing.