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Welcome to Wide World of Publishing, where the Chud Supremes at Unreal Press squeeze into their gold jackets and open a week's worth of blackpilling emails from a 25-dollar-per-month newsletter, all to bring you the absolute best of upcoming literature and non-fiction. This is not a creative writing project. These are real books that have been greenlit in the last week. This is your future, which, in all honesty, is just a continuation of your present.

First up: This week's installment of "Who Is This For?"

Former NFL media relations employee Elizabeth Staple’s THE W.A.G.S, in which a media relations director reckons with responsibility and womanhood in the masculinized world of the NFL after the violent death of her team’s legendary coach, while cryptic notes begin to threaten the long-held secrets of her support group, the Women Against Groping Shitheads.

Alright, this clearly isn't for fans of the NFL, because the author hates them. But, the demographic that would buy a self-aggrandizing politically charged memoir does not care at all about the NFL, which is the entire hook of this pitch. So, now we're free to speculate; what's the point of this? Rage bait for Tucker? Money laundering? Is Elizabeth Staples somebody's niece? Early life, anyone?

#2

Former deputy editor at ForbesWomen and writing coach Ruthie Ackerman’s THE MOTHER CODE, an exploration of the scientific, economic, and cultural forces that shape women’s decisions about if, when, and how to parent, centered on her own path from maternal ambivalence to motherhood.

I'm going to guess her "path to motherhood" began somewhere around age 35 when her career, which was her entire plan for her life, began to lose momentum and she realized that “90% of her eggs are already gone - 97% by the time she turns 40”.

#3

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LOVELY ONE, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her: from growing up in Miami with educator parents who broke barriers during the 1960s to honing her voice as an oratory champion to performing improv and participating in pivotal student movements at Harvard to balancing the joys and demands of marriage and motherhood while advancing in big law – and, finally, to making history upon joining the nation’s highest court.

Justice Brown has somehow found time to pen her own autobiography while simultaneously saying more in 2 years on the job than most do in 20. I do applaud the restraint of the blurb writer; there is not one mention of race despite that surely being the entire core of the book's marketing.
#4

Author of RESPONDING TO THE RIGHT and WHY YOU SHOULD BE A SOCIALIST Nathan J. Robinson and Noam Chomsky’s THE MYTH OF AMERICAN IDEALISM: HOW U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ENDANGERS THE WORLD, a critique of U.S. power, showing how recent U.S. foreign policy decisions have caused disastrous harm across the globe, and warning that until the U.S. recognizes the crimes it is capable of—and works to change its course—the U.S. poses the most serious ongoing threat to humanity’s prospects for a livable future.

Let Herr Chomsky die, please. Are they really putting my man through electroshocks for this? And in all honesty, while I admire his linguistics research and writing, from what I've read of his political philosophy Chomsky had dementia in 1983; forcing him on a book tour now is just cruel.

Now, why this series, why now? Well, If you’re into literature at all, you’ve probably heard someone talk about “the absolute state of modern publishing”. If you’re the discerning type, you’ve also probably wondered whether the person complaining about Modern Publishing really has a leg to stand on; after all, this guy only reads stuff written before World War 2 and obviously has some ideological bone to pick. Well, here’s the actual real state of publishing, as presented by the publishers themselves. Not to say that nothing good is produced, but if you want that sort of discussion, subscribe to the Unreal Press on Youtube.