Original Audio: https://youtu.be/zxGEI6u5_Ro Originally streamed live: at https://www.twitch.tv/hellofmira "It is not the artist’s job to undo market demands or argue with critics and readers; the landscapes in which their work exists and is used are not wholly their doing. But are authors faultless for letting themselves be too easily believed, crowned authorities on authenticity? Perhaps I harbor too much distrust of readers. Mine is an arrogant critic’s panic that readers will fail to question what they see — a conviction rooted in the fact that I, too, am often that sloppy, deficient reader, trusting anyone who can wink with authority, rolling my eyes about the emperor’s new clothes with my fly down. I wish I knew when to know better." -- Som Nai Nguyen