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AUTHOR STATUES I WOULD THROW INTO A RIVER, a thread https://twitter.com/helenjmacdonald/status/1272790032244490240
Really this one goes without saying. Earnest wasn’t just a wife beater and an alcoholic who couldn’t stop pining for the one lady that rejected him, he defined toxic masculinity for generations of men, THANKS A PANTLOAD CHET
Next up Hemingway’s frenemy F Scott Fitzgerald who stole a lot of his best ideas from the wife he left to burn to death in an asylum!
Next up, AYN RAND whose writing gave us generations of Rand Pauls and Paul Ryans, no thank you
Not a full statue but we could yeet this bust of Heinlein, your gross libertarian uncle, into a pond or something
Good ol H.P. Lovecraft deserves to be sunk to the bottom of the sea for his antisemitism, sexism, and extremely racist cat monikers (don’t google it, just trust me)
Next up is Mr Kipling who the brilliant @egambrill named THE JUNGLE CROOK
And of course Ted Hughes, worst literary husband????? Sylvia deserved so much better.
KEROUAC, beloved of fuckbois everywhere. To paraphrase @helfitzgerald the best thing about getting older is that guys finally stop talking to you about Kerouac
TOLSTOY, hooboy how could I forget Leo, who made his wife and mother of his 13(!!!) children copy his books by hand - even the ones about him cheating on her with other women. Tried to leave all his money to a cult??? Tear him down!
I’d love to trebuchet this head of Gore Vidal into the ocean. He was a huge misogynist and a total bore. An over inflated sense of self worth. Yeet.
Suggested by @themaureenlee TS ELIOT for a) comitting his first wife because he was bored and horny and b) inflicting CATS on the world. I just saw that movie and can safely say I wish this man had never been born.
Requested by @oregonclematis, I can’t forget CHARLES DICKENS who tossed his wife 22 yrs and mother of his ten(!!) children out, then published a long winded defense (like he could ever be concise) of his behavior and his affair with Ellen Ternan. Also, just look at this a-hole.
Gonna have to add this statue of Lord Byron in Athens even though as a statue, it’s pretty good, but still. This guy lived for ruining reputations and oh yeah HE SLEPT WITH HIS SISTER also I feel like he would like this statue *too* much
Let’s not forget JACK LONDON who was preeeeeeeeetty racist, his essay “The Salt of the Earth” is very pro-Aryan master race and frankly I have no time for man’s struggle with nature, you can’t fuck nature NATURE FUCKS YOU, JACK.
This has been a lot of fun today and I’ve loved the comments. Updike, Salinger, and Roald Dahl definitely belong on the list but don’t have statues that I could find.
For now though I will say support #BlackLivesMatter 
in any way that you can. If you see someone reading one of these authors suggest some of the amazing Black authors publishing today! https://www.teenvogue.com/story/books-by-black-authors-2020
in any way that you can. If you see someone reading one of these authors suggest some of the amazing Black authors publishing today! https://www.teenvogue.com/story/books-by-black-authors-2020
