Josh Lambert is the Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English, and director of the Jewish Studies Program, at Wellesley College. His books include Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture (NYU Press, 2014), and The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature (Yale University Press, 2022), from which his Public Books essay “Toward the Next Literary Mafia” is adapted.
Josh Lambert
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Toward the Next Literary Mafia
Those excluded from the publishing industry can ultimately overwhelm its bigotry—if they all work together.
