So I read and tried to figure out what kind of writer I would end up being. These were also the few books frontloaded to me in school and bookstore displays, described as the ‘literary canon.’ I supposed that to exist in a publisher’s market, you had to brand yourself to a specific genre to even get onto a bookshelf. This meant a period in my life where I dabbled in writers whose prose was often terse and morose, mostly male and white. When I first started to write, I tried and failed to emulate authors who never wrote, or probably cared, about people from my background.
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