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I do appreciate your observations, how you consider them seriously and communicate them responsibly, but in this case I might say you're leaning over your toes going out of the way to be cynical that it won't happen when you could rejoice that it did happen, that this time (and many repeat times on this site) someone has made a personal recommendation that you connected with
True, and you make a fair point. But I dont think i have found a recommendation for such a writer who is newly writing now.
Every writer I've heard about lately got their start (and recognition) before AI -- okay, AI has only really been capable of the deluge for the last year or two -- how does a new writer go about finding readers these days?
being a writer is supposed to be more behind-the-scenes work, I think. When I began to study literature, we looked briefly at every writer's bio, and it struck me that nearly every one of them did something else besides writing.
I'm just saying, I think it's a feature that you can go unnoticed for a large chunk of your writing career.
so I guess I would just ask a different question, but the one you pose is certainly still worth answering
I, myself, didn't know of Williams. You've made me curious about him though. I see he has a book called Butcher's Crossing which I am now interested to read.
He doesn't seem to have ever made it very big (although sharing the National Book Award with John Barth is fairly big). I wonder how such storytellers will find these days -- not bug enough to attract a national publisher, but serious about writing and good enough to find some readers whose life will be changed by their words...I'm worried that in the onslaught of slop, such writers will be truly hard to find. Between self publishing and AI generated writing and the general increase in writing being published everywhere, I don't know how I would find a modern day John Williams...unless by the recommendation of a knowing reader like yourself.