Just went on a bit of a wild ride...

There's an internet meme about a book called "Bear." See the cover below, the book is exactly what it looks like and attracted controversy back in it's day because while it's extremely poorly written and unintentionally comedic, the jewish press fell over themselves praising it and it won the highest literary award in Canada after a panel of either based shitposters or degenerate freaks (not sure which) voted for it.

Anyhow, turns out there's more to the story. The woman who wrote it was a... not very successful writer. Now the correct word for someone who can't make a living from their art is "hobbyist," but this wasn't enough from her so she decided it was that canadian government's responsibility to subsidised unpopular authors by requiring public libraries to pay them royalties and arranging pensions for them.

She reckoned that if you bought one of her books, then let someone else read it, you were stealing from her (STEALING!). Imagine if anything else worked that way... like if you bought a car then the designer showed up insisting you pay him every time your wife borrows it, or if you bought an armchair and the carpenter turns up one day asking about your contributions to his pension fund.

She formed a union to pursue this goal, which also wasn't very successful and that's where "Bear" comes in. She decided that the best way to get her new writer's union taken seriously was to have it publish a series of porn novels written by "serious" authors (which apparently included herself). Afaik she was the only one that did this and she decided to publish it anyhow.

Anyhow, I had a look through her early life but there isn't much detail as she was adopted. Her surname is a bit jewy (Engels was Marx's friend and extremely philosemetic, likely a crypto) but it's her husband's name so not really a clue. Her photos definitely have a merchant vibe going on.