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American Fiction and the Stories We Can't Tell
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American Fiction and the Stories We Can't Tell

(Even in stories about the stories we can't tell)

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Cover art for American Fiction (the 2023 movie), Erasure (the book), and Bamboozled (the movie).

In Sunday’s BookTube episode, I reflected on the challenges of traditional and self-publishing, of which there are many. In the former category, I mentioned some of the challenges for writers “tokenized” by their agents or presses. It’s deeply painful for many writers to get a chance to publish, but only because the agent or press thinks they’ll write a…

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