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Any kind of imagined future where White people are still the racial majority in the United States is inherently unrealistic. But you can’t, as a White author, just insert a bunch of Black and brown characters into your novel and call it a day.
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I bring you here ten of my favorite quotes and anecdotes from this remarkably funny and moving story of Dolly’s life, as she chose to tell it. She is magnanimous and generous, and she gives away exactly as much as she wants to and no more.
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The trajectory of Covid awareness may not go exactly as many expect, and in the meantime, bookstores are one of the community spaces that can offer a transition point to a different possible future.
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What wave of feminism is it where we tell a woman she is too clueless to understand what is going on in her own marriage?
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There is a pervasive idea that serious fiction is purely a pursuit of the mind, meaning it is not of the body, of desire, of pleasure, of satisfaction and relief. It is not meant to be therapeutic or healing.
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The stories of the activist group Mothers United in Mass Mothering are refracted through the lenses of layer upon layer of witnesses. We have seen this same thing playing out in Minneapolis, where people are looking, watching, witnessing.
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The ongoing pandemic is affecting authors just as it's affecting everyone else. We’re not supposed to talk about it, and we’re treated with disdain if we take precautions to prevent infection. Just the same, authors are not supposed to write about it.