Three Dangerous Tipping Points for Today’s Writers: Part I-The Adventures of Ripov McHack on Brazilian Jungle River

A three-part Substack on vital issues facing writers today: the stranglehold of a certain online bookseller; why the WGA strike is a fight for survival; and looming dangers of AI expansion.

As a youth my head filled with ethereal notions of being “a great writer.” Dreaming of literary glory in the height of my pretentious high school fashion, I was puzzled when I first heard about writers’ unions. Unions? Wasn’t that the domain of carpenters or construction workers? Plumbers? Brick layers? Writers were artists. You can unionize manual labo…