Roxane Gay, Myriam Gurba and others discuss the publishing 'crisis' after 'American Dirt'
by Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times
Feb 07, 2020
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Long before Jeanine Cummins' highly contentious "American Dirt" was published by Flatiron Books, the novel was raising red flags internally, according to Myriam Gurba.
"I've spoken to people who work in Flatiron who have told me that the book was identified as problematic from the get-go," Gurba alleged, speaking before a packed room on Thursday at a panel organized by her new group, #DignidadLiteraria. "And people's critiques were either dismissed or they felt coerced into being silent. ... They knew that this could happen and they went through with it anyway."
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