The Age: “When the US State Department designated a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist as a ‘cultural ambassador’, it probably did not plan for him to go around the world calling his president a ‘moron’ who governs an ‘evil empire’. Nor did it expect him to boycott Israel because of US foreign policy, nor to warn Australia that its culture would be ‘gobbled up’ by a free trade agreement.” (via Literary Saloon)
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Richard Ford to world: “It’s silly to think writers can be cultural ambassadors.” But hey, the world likes your political punditry just fine! (Via Ed.)…