"I think that part of the problem is that a lot of black writers are … satisfied with being successful outside of what you’d call literary fiction. And if you take that satisfaction, you don’t get in the club. You have to write literary fiction to get in the club. And there aren’t that many black writers that they’ve allowed in the club to choose from…"
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On the experiences of Black writers in “Visible Man: An Interview with Mitchell S. Jackson” in The Paris Review (2014 Jan 30)
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