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Writing a New History of the Middle Ages: Interview with Dan Jones on Powers and Thrones

Tides of History

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Is It a Good Thing to Kill an 11 Year Old?

Foanteman: Publishers in general are supernervous baking into the editorial process. They're desperately trying not to have anything remotely controversial find its way into texts if they can help it, for fear of confected back lash on the internet. I think we're doing a lot of imagining the worst human being and then trying to hold back or amend what we say so that we don't either trigger the timid person or excite the bad person. If you have confidence as a writer and any sort of moral compass, publish it. And lets lets get us rselves out of this peculiar mentality. Foanteman, let us feer at criticism. Mea brocas meda

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