Great letter in new Nation magazine:
"In his review of Paul Beatty’s novel The Sellout [“Shelf Life,” August 17/24], Jesse McCarthy includes me among a group of writers in “perpetual search of an audience.” Just because most of my books and theater have been ignored by the New York media—including The Nation , which hasn’t reviewed a book of mine since the early 1980s—doesn’t mean that I lack a wide audience."
Reed continues to document incredible international success. American literary culture wears blinders.
"In his review of Paul Beatty’s novel The Sellout [“Shelf Life,” August 17/24], Jesse McCarthy includes me among a group of writers in “perpetual search of an audience.” Just because most of my books and theater have been ignored by the New York media—including The Nation , which hasn’t reviewed a book of mine since the early 1980s—doesn’t mean that I lack a wide audience."
Reed continues to document incredible international success. American literary culture wears blinders.
