Blazing Reader:

In a recent article, Dr. Naomi Wolf recounts her visit to a Brooklyn bookstore that has been a "stalwart outpost of free-thinking publishing." Such independent bookstores, she says, "usually reflect the burning issues in a culture at that given time."

Or, at least, they did.

"In the center of an altar to literate culture," writes Dr. Wolf, "it was as if the years 2020-2023 simply did not exist and had never existed."

Scanning the non-fiction aisles, she found not a title about the great "pandemic" or the historical measures taken against it.

What about in the pages of novels? Dr. Wolf writes:

Surely the wonderful novelists of my generation, astute observers of the contemporary scene — Jennifer Egan, Rebecca Miller — would have written their Great American Novels about the mania that swept over the globe from 2020-2023 — one which provided once-in-a-century fodder for fiction writers?

Nope. She found nothing in the fiction aisles.

And it's no wonder...

The job of fiction authors is to craft a believable story. The pandemic narrative reads like a hack novel. The only credible story one can tell about the COVID era is one that exposes the fraud.

That's why I wrote Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story. Set in Canada, it can't be the "Great American Novel" that Dr. Naomi Wolf was seeking, but Dr. Kevin Barrett has christened it "the great Canadian COVID novel."

Of course, few independent bookstores dare carry it. My local bookstore reluctantly did — hidden on the bottom shelf below the display shelves. And when Druthers News showed up to record a live interview with me in front of the store, the masked owner told us to get lost. (All this was captured on video and seen by thousands, producing the greatest number of onilne sales for the novel in a single day).

So why is the pandemic being ignored by novelists?

"...from conversations I had with people in liberal-elite publishing, media, education, and the arts," writes Dr. Wolf, "these public intellectuals are being enabled in their silence or distraction or collusion, by a cultural nexus that wants them silent."

Fortunately, technology now allows authors to bypass elite publishing houses and masked-up bookstore chains. March 30th will mark the one-year anniversary that Much Ado About Corona has been on sale all over the world. You can help this forbidden literary work reach the larger public by purchasing copies for friends, family and co-workers or by leaving a review on Amazon nearest you.

Stay sane and keeping reading,

John C. A. Manley

PS You can read the rest Dr. Naomi Wolf's essay about "The Death of Culture: How Lies Killed Books" on her Substack page.

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