“I love The New Yorker, I love Harper’s, and these are very great established literary magazines, and we’re so often on the periphery.”
The “we” he’s referring to are African American, Latino, and other writers of color.
Spook is his answer.”
When people of color are subjects in mainstream media, too often it’s within the confines of stories about hip-hop, professional sports, or triumphs over adversity.
“There are always one or two African American or Latino writers,” Parham told me when I met him on Sunday in Brooklyn. “But it’s never a complete book of us. And I wanted to create our own conversation. To say these are our stories and they are just as important and we can still be in dialogue with you guys and be just as good as you guys.“
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