Microaggression in fiction

I know this kick-ass woman who helps run a radical youth organization. On Friday I was telling her that I was rushing through a Toni Morrison novel in order to get to the new Stephen King, and she laughed and said, “Why, though?”

I just love Stephen King. Going right from Tar Baby to Doctor Sleep leaves one with no illusion that he is a great writer, but Doctor Sleep offers the visceral pleasure of storytelling in a way that Tar Baby, for me, did not. (Kyle suggested to me that our own racism...