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This dovetails nicely with Roxane Gay’s post about writers of color: a list of writers of color who are also queer.
“I thought, I’m sure I can come up with 50 books by LGBT people of color,” writes the post’s author.
...moreGuernica interviews Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple and one of the most censored contemporary writers, in honor of Banned Books Week.
The Color Purple has been voted off school curriculums and out of school libraries many times since its publication in the early 1980s.
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This week in New York The Future of Criticism with Lorin Stein and Maud Newton, John D’Agata and Thalia Field discuss the lyric essay, Alice Walker on activism, Salman Rushdie and Lee Bollinger discuss free speech in a globalized world, Mikael Kennedy shows his Polaroids at the Chelsea Hotel and Congress for Curious People symposium is held at Coney Island.