![]() ![]() Writing a novel ruins your life in really specific ways. You can discover Taylor discussing everything from the craft of writing to the pros and cons of literary genres, and also going viral with a quote from Amy Adams thirsting over her fellow Miss Pettigrew actor Lee Pace. There he seamlessly bounces between highbrow and lowbrow. He attended the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop and harnessed the power of Twitter to create a distinctive brand for himself. ![]() Taylor has spent the past few years quietly and steadily building up a name for himself. “I’m like, what Baldwin novel is this book in conversation with?” Taylor shouts, exasperated. “There’s this way black art is talked about,” he says, “that is invisible to white people.” These loaded comments show up when Taylor is compared to James Baldwin more frequently than contemporary writers such as Sally Rooney and Rachel Cusk, who also mine the lives of messy, overeducated twentysomethings. ![]() One reviewer called Taylor’s novel, which takes place entirely on an unnamed midwestern university campus, a “heartbreaking tale of southern childhood trauma”. Mostly because the work of black writers often receives these coded, confining labels, much as rap music is often called “urban” and black fashion is called “streetwear”. He hates when his work is called “raw” and “visceral”. ![]()
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