This from Tayari Jones: “There is something resembling an obituary to Bebe Moore Campbell in the newest Newsweek. The Newsweek piece, called Will Sleaze Dominate Black Publishing, laments that writers like Campbell are less popular than authors of non-fiction tell-alls such as Karrine Stephans.
I have to say that I have had enough of this particular narrative.
I am not disputing that racy, celebrity laden books like Confessions of a Video Vixen outsell literary novels. Instead, I am getting sick of the way that commercial writers are set up as the antagonists of literary novelists. I don’t think that I’m going to far in left field to wonder why this seems to be a discussion waged far more often when it comes to African American literature.”
