"It’s easier for me to point out what makes bad literature: forced language, too much description, poor word choice, writing things just for shock value, shitty plots, clichés, lack of research, lazy writing, people who are trying to write “diversely” for the sake of diversity. Good literature is the opposite of that…"
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On what defines good writing in “‘My Writing is My Activism’: An Interview with Isabel Quintero” in Los Angeles Review of Books (2017 Feb 1)
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