Comments on: No Luke Cage Thinkpieces: A Links Round-Up

By: Citizen Reader

Citizen Reader — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:27:00 +0000

Oh my…the pockets article is a classic. thanks for the link. Lately I find clothes that look like they have pockets, and then they are purely decorative and sewn shut. There’s a metaphor there too for the female condition on the whole, not just Hillary’s candidacy.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 03:59:00 +0000

I read the review about the Hitler book too and I agree – it’s incredible.

I want to know what this Fetus Hamlet thing is, but also it sounds awful so I think I’m just going to push it to the back of my mind.

By: Christy

Christy — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 18:29:00 +0000

Older’s piece is great – thanks for linking to it. Not that I had interest in the McEwan book, but now that I’ve read the live-tweet, I feel like that is all the experience I need of it.
Also, I’m getting a weird redirect when I click on the link to the Ann Friedman piece. Don’t know if anyone else had that experience.

By: helen (a gallimaufry)

helen (a gallimaufry) — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 14:35:00 +0000

My six-year-old daughter has an impassioned rant about the lack of pockets in girls’ clothes, which she unleashes at the drop of a hat (or a piece of clothing without pockets). It pleases me immensely to hear her lecturing the unwary on this matter.

Just read an article in the Guardian claiming that those who disliked the unmasking of Elena Ferrante were ‘prissy’ and we like knowing stuff about writers and nobody should expect any privacy these days. Way to miss the point.

Am very interested in the cultural appropriation discussion and am going to read Viet Thanh Nguyen right now. Thank you!

By: teresareads

teresareads — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 14:03:00 +0000

In reply to Katy.

I really liked Kaitlyn Greenidge’s take on the whole thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/opinion/sunday/who-gets-to-write-what.html

By: Katy

Katy — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 01:40:00 +0000

In reply to Jenny @ Reading the End. I actually agree with some of the points she was trying to make about the dangers of policing cultural appropriation when it comes to novels, but that speech was so deeply unpleasant and her way of describing that character and her place in the novel was so racist, it completely undermined any validity her argument would otherwise have had.

By: Read Diverse Books

Read Diverse Books — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:44:00 +0000

I still haven’t started Luke Cage! D: I hope to watch a few episodes this weekend, though.
But I’m off to read the Daniel Jose Older piece. Thank yo!!!

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:26:00 +0000

In reply to Jenny @ Reading the End. OMG. You are totally right. I liked a lot of The Mandibles and didn't even recognize until now that the character on a leash was from that novel (it was a very small part and the character is so irritating I remember wondering why no one had killed her off yet). And yet in every novel of hers, there's more and more problematic author pov coming through.

By: Kim Aippersbach

Kim Aippersbach — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:10:00 +0000

Thanks for the Daniel José Older and Viet Thanh Nguyen links. Great articles, both. “Understand you suck. Then try to suck less and move forward.” Great advice in this context, and, really, just great life advice!

By: CoolCurry

CoolCurry — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 15:23:00 +0000

The pocket article was really great.

I’ve seen some of the VOYA controversy but I don’t have the mental wavelength to deal with it at the moment.