Marlon James, whose novel 'Black Leopard, Red Wolf' pioneered queer fantasy, thanks Mary Shelley and 'Moby Dick' for predicting our current crisis.
.” Funny enough, it was a plague — I was like, “Damn, girl. The original dystopian novel got it right!” And if there was ever a time to read “Moby Dick,” it’s now. I’m not talking the plague; I’m talking the way in which our government’s responding to it. We’re heading in this ridiculous direction. You want to understand the world, you need to get your “Moby Dick” on.“Black Leopard, Red Wolf” brings African mythology into the white Western popular conscience.
There’s also something that may not have seemed like a blessing to me when I was growing up, but I realize it now: I don’t have genre snobbery, because I couldn’t afford it. If you asked me, what kind of book did I read? Whatever book was next. God bless if I got a Virginia Woolf, but the next novel is gonna beMarlon James thinks you need to “get your ‘Moby Dick’ on.”
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