He still has a ways to go in talking about racism and I had hoped he would be more assertive in his second term, he needs to address the idea that white people need to have a conversation about race among themselves. It's the silent majority of white people who benefit from privilege and that needs to be topic one.

Jabari Asim

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If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.

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I'm kinda wishy-washy about questions. If you ask me again tomorrow, I'm likely to give you completely different answers.

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I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.

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I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, "Olive, the Other Reindeer," about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out?

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I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.

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It's disingenuous to have a discussion about racism and not point... by Jabari Asim

It's disingenuous to have a discussion about racism and not point to the language of racism.

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