Sublime

it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9

The result is that we largely end up going to writers of color to learn the specific—and go to white writers to feel the universal.

that brief moment of possessing both downtown credibility and the promise of more mainstream success.

was interested, as I had been for a long time, in the way black people ignite critical moments of discovery or change or emphasis in literature not written by them.

INTRODUCTION

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