(2024-04-17) Doctorow Bezzle Reading

Seeing Cory Doctorow Bezzle Book Reading....

During Lockdown I wrote 9 books.

The next Martin Hench book will come out next February.

I asked: You've written a lot of depressing fiction in the next decade, what do you think is the linchpin of the current badness, which we have a chance of attacking? He said

• that fiction is a warning, there's still hope
• there are actually more signs of progress/opportunity now than there has been in decades: Lina Khan/FTC, NLRB folks, potential data privacy law finally (first since 1988), European actions....