the fundamental flaw with all iterations of this nonsense is the sort of man who looks for "more masculine" reading material is also the exact man who last read a book in high school and that was 22 years ago
@pjmaciak.bsky.social"If more books were published by men with explicitly masculine themes, would there actually be a wider male readership?"
This is very much in the Platnerian mode that presumes all men are only attracted to content by, for, and possibly about Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor.
jacobin.com/2026/10/lone...
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The Strange Resurrection of Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry’s 1985 cowboy epic is finding a new generation of readers online. Its revival raises an awkward question for publishing: What happened to the big, bloody, male-coded literary novel and ...
