'American Dirt' fiasco exposes publishing industry that's too consolidated, too white and too selective
- Written by Christine Larson, Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
Copies of 'American Dirt' sit on a rack at a bookstore in New York.Laura Bonilla CAL/AFP via Getty Images
In an early chapter of “American Dirt,” the much-hyped novel now at the center of a racial controversy, the protagonist, Lydia, fills her Acapulco, Mexico, bookstore with her favorite literary classics. Because these don’t...