"Did you know that Elon Musk reads books? And has, in fact, read many books? And has watched movies? And enjoys things? That is what Tesla's CEO-who has just been promised $1 trillion of stock compensation over the next 10 years should he manage to reinvigorate car sales and build an army of 1 million robots -has been hoping to impress upon X users over the past week."
"One author he will not promote, however? The 87-year-old Pulitzer finalist and Twitter legend Joyce Carol Oates, whose "laboriously pretentious drivel" would be less enjoyable than "eating a bag of sawdust," per the world's wealthiest man. Why launch this stray at the woman who gave us We Were the Mulvaneys and , among dozens of other classics-including a handful of poems for Slate?"
Elon Musk posted endorsements of films and books on X, praising titles such as Man on Fire and The Fifth Element. X amplified a promoted Blinkist post asserting Musk reads frequently and suggesting nine nonfiction books he has recommended. Musk disparaged Joyce Carol Oates, calling her work “laboriously pretentious drivel” and comparing it to eating sawdust. Joyce Carol Oates is an 87-year-old Pulitzer finalist who tweets prolifically and occasionally targets Musk and the platform. The episode followed criticism from Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez about Musk’s trillion-dollar compensation and federal subsidies, intensifying debate about Musk’s public behavior and influence.
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