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Zadie Smith, discussing how she never mentions the race of any of the characters in her new novel, NW, unless they are white. (via theraconteurasaurus)
[Love this — kelly sue]
(via kellysue)
Oh good. That was what I did in my novel Anansi Boys. (I took some flak for it — and even found myself accused of various bad things by people who hadn’t noticed that most of the characters were African/African-American/Caribbean/Anglo-Caribbean/Of Very Mixed Race, and who felt somehow tricked or confused. But it felt very right. Still does.)
(Source: NPR, via neil-gaiman)
