On Equity in Publishing

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November 17, 2015 | 2

Over at Paper Darts, Rachel Charlene Lewis argues that editors must be held accountable for the issue of diversity in publishing. As she explains it, “The fun part about focusing instead on the role of editors is that there is an answer—we need more diverse editors, and we need editors who do the work.”

is an intern for The Millions. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in BOMB, Ploughshares online, Music & Literature, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She is currently the assistant fiction editor for Washington Square Review. She tweets at @bdantaslobato.

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Sportsballers Who Love Books

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May 3, 2017

It’s not often that you hear about an athlete who hosts his own book podcast, but Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck does just that, reports Yahoo News. (Also namechecked for their bibliophilic tendendies in the piece: Pats receiver Malcolm Mitchell and retired baller Donte’ Stallworth.)

In addition to the show, where Luck interviews his favorite authors, the QB also has a book club; this month’s reads are A Wrinkle in Time for rookies, i.e., kiddos, and The Soul of an Octopus for veterans, his adult participants.

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2 comments:

  1. Ho-hum, another day, another paint-by-numbers effort urging subpar writers to use identity politics guilt to gain an edge in a tough market. Hey, maybe in the interest of “diversity”, we could occasionally see an essay pointing out all the fallacious aspects of this shallow genre. (Yeah, I know. Fat chance.)

  2. Seems there is going to be a time when we’re going to have to decide what we value more: art or inclusiveness. Submitting your race along with your story is such a sad idea; it’s obviously not ok to use race to reject a story, but it’s okay to use it to accept one? Jesus Christ.

    Instead of this kind of ridiculous shit, how about: write better.

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State of Terror

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October 25, 2015

Junot Diaz, whose novel The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, has been deemed “un-patriotic” and “anti-Dominican” by the Dominican Republic’s consul in New York City. Diaz had been working in Washington with Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat in the hopes of urging the U.S. government to take action against the abhorrent treatment of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic.

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