In Percival Everett’s novel
Erasure and its film adaptation
American Fiction, the character Monk hopes to write novels that represent the human experience, but he is advised by his publisher to “write something ‘Blacker.’” For Monk, the push and pull of artist and audience results in a rueful depiction of familial and professional lives, but at its heart, his story asks the question: what is a writer of color permitted to write about? In this panel,
Pia Chatterjee, Vanessa Hua, Dominic Lim, and
Yalitza Ferreras explore the question of writing beyond race in traditional publishing.
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