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[megwrites]

The Rules for Writers based on race. Both hilarious and depressing in it's truth about the way that books are organized in bookstores. Or, as I would call this article, "Like You Needed More Proof that Borders Sucks".

My favorite passage:

Black authors can write books for grownups, but the books must always be about being pitiful and/or magical while being black, even when the characters are white, and it must be a version of blackness that makes white people feel smug and helpful because black people have it very hard and live in a parallel universe full of guns and thugs and characters either played by or loved by Oprah; it is in this universe alone that Little Kim is considered a scribe. These books will be separated from the rest of literature for the safety of everyone involved.

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Blogging this; thanx. I like to think Borders was doomed from the moment it decided that Toni Morrison and Iceberg Slim were in the same category.

[fiction-theory.livejournal.com]

I agree wholeheartedly.