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i mean my africans got a new crop of next big things every year ala teju cole or whatever dudes name is

my mexicans get a new crop every year

asians? i guess they got some hot shit dropping, every year

but us?

best we got is ghetto/urban/street lit which is SOOO perfectly ok for a slight lil read to transisition from work to home on the subway or whatever

but wheres our manchild in the promised land...for 2013?

not ONE toni morrison on the horizon for us that i can see

maybe yall know somebody

best we got as it stands is ol gal who wrote push & sister souljah

morpheme? ike moses? where the gatdamn manuscript @ allready?! sheesh


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She won the Nobel Prize for Literature. A prize that makes the Pulitzer look like a little thing.

I think that at the time she won it, it had only been awarded to 8 Americans.

I know what you're saying, but the woman is a bigger deal than your language implies.

i said Great Black novel

meaning its in the pantheon. it encapsulates how Black ppl are living NOW.

its not there.

i wanna know where it is or whose trying to reach that level

toni had her shot. new generation time.


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And for your initial message, you're not even wrong.

But you're seriously underestimating Toni Morrison's impact.
The woman lectures, and still publishes. She's relevant.

And honestly, I haven't really been reading the way I should, so I can't come out and give a straight answer to your question (I'm kind of wondering the same thing you are), but Toni Morrison is still a beast.

shes a living treasure. fully established & cosigned.

that aint got nothing to do w/ the price of tea in china tho

She could be 90 and not have published anything for years, and
still pump out the "Great African American Novel"

I hear you on, "what's up w/ the next generation?" but c'mon son.

how im living now.

thats what im asking. toni morrison cant write the Great Black Novel in 2014. in 1964? sure. but this aint 1964.

>how im living now.
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>thats what im asking. toni morrison cant write the Great Black
>Novel in 2014. in 1964? sure. but this aint 1964.
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1964?

Beloved wasn’t published until 1987. If you are gonna evaluate someone’s writing ability and whether they can write a great contemporary novel, you should at least be within a few decades of their peak period when discussing when they hit their peak.

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weve been over this tho


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Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones" is perhaps the most zeitgesity example right now.

the first half was a chore, but once Katrina hit that book really took off.

Colson Whitehead got heat. nigga very middleclass tho.

i'd recommend some Victor LaValle, but he's too caribbean for you.

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You know it's drama, but it sound real good.

@ least you didnt name check that dry ass emperor of ocean park shit from a while back


do or die

now go runtelldat, ho.

*snicker*


do or die

mm2 was garbage.
old fake black 007
baisden catered to his audience tho.

btw, you in trouble.

now go runtelldat, ho.

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You know it's drama, but it sound real good.

Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones" is perhaps the most zeitgesity example right now.
ok ill check it out.

the first half was a chore, but once Katrina hit that book really took off.
im sold, ill add it to the list

Colson Whitehead got heat. nigga very middleclass tho.
thats Blackness he's in the running then


i'd recommend some Victor LaValle, but he's too caribbean for you.
nope! b but not B



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The problem is he tried to write the exact SAME book for a follow-up.

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now go runtelldat, ho.

when people look back on the literature of Black America in the early 21st century, her shit is gonna be a time capsule piece.

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You know it's drama, but it sound real good.

i wanna read some shit & have to put the book down & think 'yup. rings true. i know that, live that, seen that. agreed. & now i must weep.'

havent thus far but im open to exploration

sounds like my kind of novel.

now go runtelldat, ho.

>i'd recommend some Victor LaValle, but he's too caribbean for
>you.

I don't get the Carribean part unless that's an inside joke.

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You know it's drama, but it sound real good.

if i cant claim Jamaica, they cant claim Houston


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she's from Uganda.

which still makes LaValle black not Black to Bin.

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I was good in the first half. the last half had me mad I bought the book.

>I was good in the first half. the last half had me mad I
>bought the book.

but I remember that being more the final chapter or two then the whole second half so I gave it a 'B' type of grade.

I thought the book was headed in one direction, but it went the other. And the other way was just not successful for me. I didn't get it, really.

in the first half about what the book will eventually become, but the only reason I think I was "keen" on them was cause of this post. I really wish LaValle would've left the speculative religious stuff in the cutting room and never had Ricky end up... to close the book.

but the stuff with the Unlikely Scholars, the flashbacks to the cult and his family, and his addiction were FANTASTIC

and odd, and a chore to fucn great through certain passages as LaValle becomes in love with his descriptive words...

yet, the latter half stuff really isn't that surprising if you were paying attention in the first half. the speculative clues are all over the place, but I really wished LaValle had made those spec elements more about mental illness and trauma than "real events" in the book.

the best part of the book IMO is the Cult shit. and any lover of fiction "SHOULD" read it.

LaValle is also funny as shit man. dude is a top tier writer IMO. He has a short story called "Lone Woman" in the Long Hidden Anthology. excellent short story

were very slow moving

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i thought it was going to be so much more engaging than it actually was

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i find it so....forced, i guess the word is.

otoh i recently read "the man in my basement" by walter mosley. it has similarly high aspirations, but i found it much more engaging.

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I regret to inform you that I've started it 3 times and never finished it. I'll read it this summer, though.

the 1st half was a bit on the slow side, but the 2nd half totally made up for it.

also, i'd like to point out how in some circles, "the 12 tribes of hattie" was being hyped as the next great black novel. has anyone read it? b/c i didn't enjoy it nearly as much as some critics did. that and "ghana must go" (which wouldn't count as a "black" novel according to bin b/c i think the author is from london) are 2 of the most recent examples of what i'm calling "struggle lit." you're going to tell me that not one of your characters has any positive or redemptive qualities whatsoever? nope. i ain't going.

just sayin'.

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obviously i preferred some stories over others but overall I enjoyed the book.

edward p. jones would be my choices,

gotta think up some female authors as well.

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

I disagree with Ike that the first half is a chore.

her penchant for constant metaphor and simile MAY throw some readers off, but overall it's a work of art, and will def be required reading in my classes

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You know it's drama, but it sound real good.

I didn't want it to end...I cared about all of the characters that much. I hope she does a sequel to what happens next.

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all i write are grocery lists.

but what would the great blk novel be comprised of?
to whose appeal?

what about that chick who wrote "white teeth"?
zadie smith?

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I assume he's talking about the Great Black American Novel.

i was underwhelmed w/ white teeth for what its worth tho i imagine if i was british i'd have quotes from it tatt'd on my forearms


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shit all her novels since undermine it's Blackness and epic greatness

I loved slumberland too
He's working on a new one

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