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bigWOWO Rating: Asian American Gold

We often talk about the publishing industry on this site: how mainstream publishers kill good stories, whitewash the literary scene, and edge out the edgier stories created by newer literary talent.  It’s very true–notice that whenever interviewers ask writers who they admire, it’s always the same old crowd–Alice Munro, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc.  Not that these authors aren’t good–they are–but there seems to be a gravitation towards sameness and conformity and emulation of the same people.  It’s a strange trend for an industry that relies on people who are supposedly good at creative writing.