/lit/ - Literature

>>17021494
>Thoughts on [bait topic]
Go back.

>>17021662
Where’s the bait? It’s a prestigious prize, worthy of discussion

>>17021745
You know exactly what you're doing fuck off.

/Thread

>>17021494
Is this a prize for black writers?

Why are all the dudes bald? Why do they discriminate against nappy heads?

>>17021494
Whoch one was ypur favorite anons?
>>17021662
… Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know OP's human too?

>>17021778
It's actually not, but Kirkus wants you to know they are super woke so in honor of George Floyd all winners will be black until some new identity is trendy.

>>17021494
>Kirkus prize
Literally what

>>17021812
I think its how circus is suppose to be pronounced in latin.

>>17021494
>>17021810
>>17021778
Why no Hispanics? Why are Hispanics so ignored by liberals in every area when they advocate for racial justice? Are they really just advocating justice for blacks?

>>17021494
Just read a bit from Luster, and it reads like an erotica so far. You guys can read the beginning here:
https://www.amazon.com/Luster-Novel-Raven-Leilani/dp/0374194327

>>17021856
Hispanics are white supremacists

>>17021494
I particularly enjoyed Disunity Shill by OP, but I'm not convinced it should have won out over 4Chan is the Antithesis of Twitter Liberalism and I Occasionally Feel Like the Bait Threads Have a Deeper More Nefarious Purpose by Tired Man.

>>17021859
> The life of twenty-something Edie will be familiar to many people. She is living in a big city (New York). Her neighborhood (Bushwick) isn’t the best; nor is the apartment that she rents. When we meet her, she is working a low paying job in publishing—until she gets laid off. She has dated around some. On the other hand, she is now in a relationship with an older man, Eric, who is in an open marriage with his wife, Rebecca. Eric and Rebecca are white, but they have an adopted Black daughter who is twelve. When Rebecca invites Edie (also Black) to stay at their home, things have become much less familiar. It’s rare these days to come across a book and a style that’s really different, but Raven Leilani’s Luster is exciting, surprising, sometimes sad, at times awkward, even shocking. And it’s also funny. The book will make you uncomfortable, but that mirrors the discomfort that the characters, especially Edie, feel—about age, status, race, sex, salaries, you name it. Luster has an energy and an honesty that makes the words practically shimmer on the page. I am so glad I read this

>>17021856
Idk same reason why british media is full of blacks but no pakis, or hollywood is full of blacks but no chinese despite being in california, or french films are full of blacks but no algerians, etc.
Blacks give you maximal virtue points.

>>17021812
Kirkus is quite influential in publishing

>>17021994
This. Also they have the most alien phenotypes. You know when you are looking at a black person, even if they are lighter skinned, sometime a hispanic or lighter middle easterner, or a HAPA could accidentally be mistaken for white, and we wouldnt want that.

>>17021494
>>>/pol/

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>>17021869
Underrated

>>17022202
Still /lit/ related, make some /leftpol/ thread if its on topic.

>>17021494
WE COULD READ N WRITE N SHEEEEIT

>>17021494
Each of the books is a masterliece Black queens and Black bvlls are superior penman in contrast with their white(pbuh)counterparts. Thanks for the thread, these authors deserve some recognition.

>>17021856
it's like five years of kids in cages never happened

>>17021869
Good post.

>>17022289
>five
you mean twelve

>>17022277
checked

>>17021948
I fucking hate American culture and it's attempts at drama.

>>17022350
No he meant
>It's like the four years of the kids in cages being politically relevant never happened

>>17022288
What does pbuh mean? I mean, I know what it means but why say it here? In this context?

>>17021494
I love reading books by black people. They're more entertaining.

>>17022860
Because whites(pbuh) piss be upon him

>>17021994
>>17022032
or, hear me out, maybe blacks are just artistically better than spics, pajeets, nafris and chinks?

>>17021869
This. So much this.

>>17023269
In the US blacks have tremendous cultural output, especially in music. Jazz, the Blues, hip hop and rap are all black genres.

Black people only award?

>>17023434
Good point but black cultural output in the US hasn’t been good in a long while other than a few decent rappers here and there. In any other medium for the last 40 years it’s been shit.

>>17021810
>in honor of George Floyd
I doubt he read many books.

>>17023269
t. nigger

Blackwashing for Art's moral fetish, the secular religion of neoliberalism—just like (((Zwirner)))'s niggallery.

Am I racist if I want black people to do well by doing well and not by pandering and also if I like to say the n-word a LOT. I mean like A LOT a lot. But I don't mean it I just like to say it. I only mean it when it's at someone who is being a faggot.

>>17021762
Anon you're being highly problematic right now.

I'm black (Italian) so I get a N word pass