They are publishing Trial on June 13, and we have started releasing installments on Substack (see ), so that readers can judge for themselves. Happily, I found an independent publisher willing to defy the strictures of literary apartheid. But most dispiriting was confronting the new regime in publishing: that as a white author, I should not have presumed to write fiction which featured black characters grappling with issues of racial justice. In a recent Wall Street Journal essay, I described the unwelcome novelty of having numerous publishers reject my latest novel after publishing twenty-two prior novels, sixteen of them New York Times bestsellers.
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