How Big Tech killed literary culture

How Big Tech killed literary culture

“I would never read a book,” declared crypto kingpin Sam Bankman-Fried in a fawning profile published by the venture capital firm Sequoia in September 2022. “I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up.” When SBF, as he likes to be called, was arrested for fraud and money laundering a couple of months later, journalists and other literary…