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The missing piece of this article is where his writing was going to end up. Was he writing for Readers Digest? The New Yorker? A trade paperback? I feel like the editorial process would be considerably different based on the who is publishing the work and the intended audience.

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I must agree. The most important thing for a writer would be the audience: "For whom am I writing" It may be very well the case, what he was writing was not correct for the audience targeted by the editorial.

The generalisation "americans" is twofold wrong: first, I do not think that the whole US editorial market is exactly the same. Pretty sure there is place for pornographic writing. But second, especially coming from a writer, he should say "northamerican". May sound pedantic, but we are talking about people influential in cultural scene.

> I must agree. The most important thing for a writer would be the audience: "For whom am I writing" It may be very well the case, what he was writing was not correct for the audience targeted by the editorial.

Yeah but why is it "not correct" for the targeted audience? According to the author, prudishness.

The first example is the following magazine: https://www.nplusonemag.com/ “n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics published three times yearly

The second example is the english translation of his novel: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374720889/thewomenilove

"In 2020 I was asked by my friends at the magazine n+1 to participate in an homage to their office in Brooklyn"

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