Scandinavian crime, dragon tattoos, Harvard symbologists. Do you sense a sense of pessimism among publishers about the sales for literary fiction? Aragi: The situation with book sales in England is, to tell the truth, pretty awful. I think after the Net Book Agreement collapsed, everything moved too fast. The discounting of books in England is insane. Decisions were made in a rush and got set in stone. That was disastrous for the industry there. Agent experience: how they grow in the business and what it means for writers.
Author: Michael Bourne. Date: July-August Document Type: Article. Length: 2, words. Translate Article. Set Interface Language. Decrease font size. Increase font size. Isn't this conversation between Diaz and Boston Review associate editor Avni Majithia-Sejpal, in which he analyzes Donald Trump's sexual shamelessness and comments on the public exposure of patriarchy, what a convert to feminism sounds like? Isn't this what, in this discussion of the power structures of feminism and white supremacy, a reformed misogynist acts like when he indicts the taboo of calling out patriarchy as lethal to women?
Read More. These are bigger questions than they may seem at first, because we know who we want women to be in the metoo era: brave, candid, comforted, confident, empathetic, heard, persistent, seen, trusted.
But what of the men? What do we want men in the metoo reckoning to be, besides apologetic and broken and punished -- do we even know? Don't we want them to be better? That is the reason I chose to tell the story of my rape and its damaging aftermath. This conversation is important and must continue.
I am listening to and learning from women's stories in this essential and overdue cultural moment. We must continue to teach all men about consent and boundaries. And a writer, especially one of his stature, should know better than to call prepared remarks mediated through a literary agent a "conversation. What decent men can do in response to MeToo.
The best clue to his thinking is his writing. And Diaz's recent follow-up to all his quasi-autobiographical misogynist fiction has been a career about-face: "Islandborn," a children's book about Lola, an immigrant schoolgirl from a Caribbean island who is tasked with remembering her homeland, a place she left when she was too young to remember.
The book has a compelling scene in which Lola, alone in an elevator, calls out to her lost memories of the Island, like a cat -- "But like a cat, the Island did not come.
He recounted the assaults in "The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma," a recent New Yorker piece, writing that they pushed him to suicide attempts. He also knows the savage skepticism directed towards misogynists in the process of becoming reformed.
What if Reckoning must give way to redemption, or else what good is it? Under what terms? She grabbed a microphone, didn't introduce herself, and asked why he had harmed her.
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