![]() The black people in Harlem, in West Baltimore, in the south-side of Chicago, and in Washington, DC, who inspired that book, who empowered that book- they’re erased. And that’s what it means to be in the bubble. And a signature of the bubble was a young white woman reading Between the World and Me. I saw this SNL skit a couple weeks back called “The Bubble”, where you could retreat from Trump. It’s not that you don’t want other people to read it, but then the entire book becomes like that, about what white people think about it. The book is for them, in that sense, it’s for that feeling. You feel yourself trying to write from an African-American perspective that is not fully represented, and in your mind, to the extend there is any audience, you see yourself as writing for African Americans who are like you, who are somewhat frustrated about things. I had no defenses for the idea that the biggest question about The World and Me would not be about my friend Prince Jones, who got killed not about the communication between myself and my son not about growing up in West Baltimore but, why are so many white people reading this book? Literally whole articles written about what is going on here. ![]() Writers have to prepare themselves to not be read by a bunch of people. ![]() ![]() First of all, I didn’t expect the book to be so successful. Klein brings up the success of Between the World and Me and Coates expresses the following: ![]()
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