The idea that suffering makes great art is a truism hasn’t really held true over the last few years. Despite the odd hope that a Trump presidency could somehow inspire creativity, there was little evidence that music, literature, theater and the like deviated from its late-capitalist path.
2020 proved a harsher blow; in the pandemic, much of the creativ…
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