How do all these ‘creative writing’ majors miss the part where Kafka worked in an office all day?

When “all day” meant 7am to 7pm, no “benefits,” no “vacations”?

Prague didn’t hand out “arts council grants.”

Know why Hemingway got to be a full time writer?

LIFE magazine and The New Yorker and other publications paid $1/word in the 1950s and 60s.

Do you know what those magazines pay today — the ones that still exist, I mean?

$1/word!

Anyhow: this is not a parody, apparently.