Word: acad
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...suffering. Publishers, they charge, are so reluctant to miss a potential best-seller that increasing numbers of mediocre writers make it into print, while true talents get lost in the shuffle. Literature professor and essayist Pierre Jourde - whose scathing treatise, Literature Without Guts, won an award from the Académie Française in June - argues that the overproduction is fueled by a cult of personality and by kid-gloved critics who are often shoddy novelists themselves and thus disinclined to attack falling standards. Other authors, he charges, divert attention from their otherwise unremarkable texts with posturing or controversy...