{"id":62,"date":"2008-12-22T18:28:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2008-12-22T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T01:28:07","slug":"meeting-black-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/meeting-black-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting black authors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone<\/a> from my writing group, uh, the group I was<\/i> going to when I was writing regularly, linked to a blog, White Readers Meet Black Authors<\/a>. I checked it out and as a direct result checked out Getting Mother’s Body by Suzan-Lori Parks, on CD. So the CD is in my car and I am sitting here wondering what is going to happen next when I should be figuring out what is going to happen next in my own novel.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I visited her blog again just to see what’s up over there and was saddened to read that some people have responded to her blog in a very negative, hateful way. Can we all just read and let read? Sheesh.<\/p>\n

I dig the site and learned a thing or two. One thing that has always embarrassed me on the job is when people assume that I am up on “African American” books, and then I disappoint them. In that moment, it feels personal, and I, generally good at not taking things at work personally. It’s not that I don’t read black authors, it’s just my reading choices are pretty organic. One day I’m reading about Richard Nixon, I find out about some pie that his mom used to make…next thing I know, I’m reading about growing that particular fruit. So there are times when I am reading a lot of black authors, and then on the other hand, there are times I’m not reading any at all.<\/p>\n

Funny, the day I set a goal to write 1000 words a day on my novel, I find the time to blog not once, but twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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