Karen Grigsby Bates interviews Terry McMillan, Susan McHenry of Black Issues Book Review (“the industry’s Bible for Black publishing news”), Calvin Reid of Publisher’s Weekly, and Troy Johnson of AALBC.com about the proliferation of street fiction. Listen to this important segment on NPR’s All Things Considered:
Publishing Company Called Out over ‘Ghetto Lit’
Listen to this story… by Karen Grigsby Bates
All Things Considered, October 12, 2007 · Author Terry McMillan sent a letter to Simon & Schuster’s head editors, blasting them and the publishing world for publishing and promoting so-called “ghetto lit,” which is often referred to as urban literature and urban fiction.
The genre often shows the most outrageously pathological part of black life.
Many esteemed black authors have been equally dismayed, but the McMillan broadside is now loosening lips.
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Jan. 20, 2004
Readers Embrace ‘Ghetto Lit’ Genre
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