"I am a white man, but I really enjoyed your book..."
This week's alt
Montreal Mirror dug up an old comment from Nigerian writer
Chinua Achebe ("Things Fall Apart" is his all-time classic novel): African writers "are passing through a period of great pressure on the writer to become an ideologue, and I want to resist that. I believe that orthodoxy of
any kind is inimical to art, and that is why the writer must be free."
How free? I just discovered this blog post on
racial profiling in bookstores.