assem­blage art 2

from the same review:

If you know Fitzwa­ter, it should come as no sur­prise that one of the main char­ac­ters in the novel is not a per­son at all, but an entity – The Press. I emailed Fitzwa­ter to ask him about the sig­nif­i­cance of the Kansas City Star in Esther’s Pil­low. He told me: “The Kansas City Star is a char­ac­ter in Esther’s Pil­low, espe­cially because its exten­sive cov­er­age helped change the moral atti­tudes in Lin­coln, Kansas and the nation con­cern­ing tar and feath­er­ing. Indeed, with­out the Star’s cov­er­age, this trial might have passed unno­ticed, and the com­mu­nity would not have exam­ined its own moral­ity so closely.”


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