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Book

How to sell out : the (hidden) cost of being a Black writer

Call Number

  • 921 S2151 (CEN, POW)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025.

Physical Description

viii, 236 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"A timely, vulnerable, and cutting-edge exploration of the pressures and pitfalls of writing while Black in America in this urgently needed addition to the national conversation of race, money, and art"--

Contents

  • The First Hit Changes You
  • Get Out of Jail Free
  • Buffoonery and Violence
  • THE TOURNAMENT "Pilot"
  • Expats and Allies
  • Encounter with a Geniuth
  • Blinding Lights
  • "Welcome to the Neighborhood."
  • Lost in Space
  • Profound Whiteness
  • Jay-Z and the Owners
  • The Old Kanye
  • Directed by Spike Lee
  • "You're Not Rich."
  • Jack and Jill and the Black Elite
  • The Cost of Living
  • A Man Named Lunsford Lane
  • Black People and Isolation
  • Thoughts from a Therapist
  • I Quit.

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