Monday, May 21, 2018

Dorothy Allison Wonders When Working-Class Rage Will Bubble Up Through Fiction

Fiction apart from her own, that is. Her project, and the project that she hopes other working-class writers will take us, is clear: "Trying to write with love and respect about people who even as you love them are destroying themselves and to try to write it accurately and with some of the grace of Meridel Le Sueur is the challenge. But you can’t write about this stuff and be boring. That would be a sin against God."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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