![]() ![]() The Esquire episode was a scary one, and certainly the fact that "The Term Paper Artist" described gay sex played a role in it. Which seems to me a terrible shame: I mean, isn't one of the pleasures of reading discovering the commonalities you share with people whose experience, at least on the surface, is different from your own? The idea that gay-themed novels would only be of interest to gay readers horrifies me, and yet this appears to be the trend likewise novels by black women are marketed these days almost exclusively to an audience of black women. The risk is instead that the publisher will ghettoize the book by means of "niche marketing": that is to say, stocking the book primarily in gay bookshops, advertising only in the gay press, etc. Indeed, gay content is no longer a barrier to book publication. A-Yes, of course, things are easier now than they were in the age of Wilde. ![]()
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