I saw someone link to an article giving Le Carré as an example of the sort of bad middlebrow lit one should avoid (in favor of one w/a highbrow-lowbrow split), not realizing the authors he cited were some of the best refutations of his argument www.programmablemutter.com/p/patrick-ob...
Patrick O'Brian is a Great Conservative Writer
His concern is the problem of right authority
October Drawing Challenge, Day 2: Bolt Boy/Frankenstein #illustration#horror#lowbrow#mabsdrawlloween#sotbgc9#monster
The CIA needs to start meddling with culture again, it's getting too boring and lowbrow.
It was a very singular time for genre cinema where cultural and market forces pushed lowbrow shlock and high effort filmmaking as close together as they have ever been.