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[Noel Rosenberg]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, David D'Antonio wrote:
| Perhaps this would be a good panel; not about OSC in particular but  
| about the politics of cons and GoH invites?

In fact, it did make a really good panel at Wiscon a few months ago:

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When Good Books Happen to Bad People

Do you feel the need to justify your enjoyment of the works of
any authors? Is your enjoyment constrained by some aspect of
the author, whether rumored or verified? Do you find yourself
apologizing for admiring the work of any author? Some readers
can still appreciate of Orson Scott Card, while others can't get past
his personal beliefs. Should the fact that William Burroughs killed
his wife play any part in a discussion of his writing? Should it
preclude serious discussion of his writing? Is it necessary that good
books by bad (problematic) authors only be secret, guilty pleasures?
How can we make sense of the seeming dichotomy of a bad
person producing valuable material
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Of course, having good people on the panel helped a lot.

-Noel