Recommended Reading: Katy Simpson Smith on who can fictionalize slavery and writing across time and race. Our own Edan Lepucki writes on reading slavery in fiction.
Writing and Reading Race
“Fat guy. They knew.”
Recommended Reading: Ray Shea's essay at Hobart "Fat Guy." "I want to say that I shrunk into my shoes and disappeared, but when somebody throws 'fat guy' at you, you don't shrink, you grow. You bloat."
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Good Gugge-mugga!
Congratulations to the new group of Guggenheim Fellows in fiction and nonfiction, which, in addition to such luminaries as Kiran Desai and Colson Whitehead, includes past Millions contributors J.C. Hallman, Terese Svoboda, and Ben Marcus.
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VIDA Shall Be Pleased
By happy accident, the third issue of Brooklyn-based lit mag Armchair/Shotgun (which uses an anonymous submissions system) is composed entirely of female writers. Issues are available for online purchase. EDIT: Following our update, the publication put out a notice on how the "all-female-writers issue" issue came to be.