Letters to a writer of color, edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro
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Letters to a writer of color, edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro
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non fiction
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Letters to a writer of color
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edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro
Summary
These seventeen essays by celebrated writers of color start a more inclusive conversation about storytelling and encourage readers and writers to re-evaluate the codes and conventions that have shaped their assumptions about how fiction should be written
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On Origin Stories / Taymour Soomro -- On Structure / Madeleine Thien -- On Authenticity / Amitava Kumar -- On Humor / Tahmima Anam -- On Character / Tiphanie Yanique -- On Trauma / Ingrid Rojas Contreras -- On Translation / Xiaolu Guo -- On Queerness / Zeyn Joukhadar -- On Telling and Showing / Jamil Jan Kochai -- On the Inactive Protagonist / Vida Cruz-Borja -- On Crime Fiction / Femi Kayode -- On Violence / Nadifa Mohamed in conversation with Leila Aboulela -- On Art and Activism / Myriam Gurba -- On the Second Person / Kiese Laymon -- On Political Fiction and Fictional Politics / Mohammed Hanif -- On Reception and Resilience / Sharlene Teo -- On the Ideal Conditions for Writing / Deepa Anappara
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