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Let me get this straight.

so Spider-Man came out in the early 60s, amazing research

What would you call it when 2 good-ol boy cops in rural GA in 1962 decide to pursue a black man driving a convertible at night, assuming it’s stolen?

Racist, right? That’s a given.

It is also, according to Ms. Pittard, “a complete failure of imagination.”

??? because cops should imagine any possibility before they assume the worst? I don’t get it.

Sounds good, in consideration makes no sense. AKA MFA writing

shaggy dog stories are so late-20th

favorite passage yet, the boarders camaraderie. when she inhabits her characters without explaining them her writing is most tolerable

she’s good when her characters are talking to each other

The public display of grief and the turn of the scene are captured nicely

bwaahahahaha

“one was not born a woman but became one.”

(a transgender sleeper agent, in 1962?) who by the age of EIGHT knew no difference between her anatomy and her twin brother’s??

has Ms. Pittard ever known a child? was she ever one herself??

“Is too much a thing?”

I’m seeing this around a lot, the “is it a thing” colloquialism. It’s anachronistic from the mouth of anybody before this decade.

Careless.

Unsure how much is fiction and how much is reportage