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Nicole Lavelle's avatar

“…if Norman Mailer can refuse to read an entire group of authors based on their gender and his estimation of their worthlessness, then so can I.”

i love this so much.

i feel like i have at least a decade of avoiding white male authors ahead of me; i’m trying to make up for all the ones i was forced to read in school! i refuse Jonathan Franzen as well. and i have no regrets.

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Sarah J. Bofenkamp's avatar

I almost included a "white men I wish I hadn't read" section but that felt like a different thought exercise entirely.

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