Tayari's Blog: Link! Link! Link!

Posted by TayariJones on November 12, 2007 09:21 PM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

There is some good stuff on the web today!

  • A.C. Crispin points out that after watching too many movies about writers, folks get a warped idea of the agent/writer/publisher relationship. The bottom line: in real life the only agents who act like Holywood's version are scam artists.
  • Nathan McCall's new book, "Them," is about gentrification and it is set in Atlanta. (Are you wondering why I am just now finding this out? Me, too!)
  • K.G. Schneider is planning a workshop on writing for the web. The syllabus is really interesting. (And she mentions this blog!)
  • Reggie gives a moving report about Troy Smith's recent visit to a juvinile detention center. Make sure you read your way down to the poem by Essex Hemphill.

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    Comment #1, by minaj [TypeKey Profile Page]

    It's probably just grumpy old me, but was anyone else disturbed by the line in the Salon review that said, ""Them" is so frank, so devoid of phony uplift and so animated by semi-reportorial urgency that most readers, I suspect, will forgive it for not being better written." Nathan McCall is an experienced writer. Shouldn't he be held to the same high standards for fictional writing as anyone else? I just don't think the same comment would be made about a white author. Low expectations for Black people can be deadly. We have plenty of authors (you, for example, Tayari) who stand head-to-head with any other group of authors. Shouldn't McCall's editor have demanded the same from him?

    November 13, 2007 11:05 AM

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