Most of my views about the ethical responsibility of the writer are utterly idiosyncratic and, as far as I can tell, are shared by none of my writerly peers.1 One of those views is that a writers’ main ethical obligation is to the integrity of literature and language itself.
This obligation is separate from the obligation to write as well as you can. The…
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