- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.
- American Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.
- All My Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main characters, I was very invested in telling the story and also very worried about the effects the story would have.
- Fiction Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events in the book were happening, I knew I'd probably write about them one day. I didn't want to. I'd studied fiction, and I was committed to establishing myself as a fiction writer first.
- Painful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first draft was hard because I was just getting it out. In some ways, that draft failed. I was really just telling the story, not making assessments - this happened, then this. Just putting those facts down on paper was really painful.
- Humidity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more honest about the realities of the community I was writing about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020