By Jon Cogburn
If there were some place to nominate the most interesting blog kefluffle of the month, I would duly submit the recent one between philosopher/novelist R. Scott Bakker and aspiring novelist/University of Florida English department graduate student Shaun Duke.
The source of the conflict was a "pox on both your houses" post by Bakker with respect to the controversy regarding the recent Hugo awards (wikipedia account here). Yes, many of the people who hijacked the ballet had obnoxious political agendas, but at the same time literary quality should not be confused with what is likely to teach well in college English classes and/or yield lots of articles and book chapters that help English professors get tenure.
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