As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, being a working-class writer is fucking hard. The mainstream publishing industry is primarily owned and staffed by the middle class, and it exists largely for the benefit of middle-class authors, even though most readers, I suspect, are working class. The only available avenues of admittance to this self-serving, incestuous coterie are via education – public school, Oxbridge – or through social and familial connections. If you’re fucking a literar