MIT's Desire to Get Academics to Read More Widely

I like the idea of a university press publishing fiction or poetry. I think it should be publishing all aspects of writing. One of the exciting things that's coming up with MIT, not through me, but through my colleague, Mark Lowenthal, is that we're getting some Ballard titles in. There was a sort of wave of fascism book. Someone twig that everyone's worried about it and you could publish a load of books about what fascism is. Well, I know amongst them,. there's some really good books about fascism or I'm sure amongst the books on COVID, there's, you know, a plethora of really good books, but I imagine there's just as many bad