On the Work of Writers in Hard Times

(And let's face it: they're all hard times.)

I had originally planned to talk about this book for my BookTube, but I wasn’t satisfied with any of my takes on the topic: some got too angry, some fell into long personal tangents, and some simply failed to encapsulate everything I wanted to say.

So, like a good and dutiful writer, I am returning to straight prose to make my case.

Roxana Arama is a fell…