![]() ![]() The Traitor Baru Cormorant is a novel about the cutting line between subversion and complicity. Junot Diaz wrote that “white supremacy’s greatest trick is that it has convinced people that it exists always in other people, never in us.” The Book’s About The Line Between Subversion and Complicity How many of your beliefs are you willing to sacrifice in order to be effective? ![]() If you want to speak, you need to convince people to listen. If you want to change the world, you need power. This is true not just of books, but of everything! If you want to change politics, you have to be an effective politician. If no one reads your book, it can’t change anyone but you. This novel’s written to work as a fast-paced, emotionally taut thriller. If you just want to read a great story, you can stop right here! Nothing below will matter to you. ![]() The book must succeed as a piece of craft. If you do, I’ve drawn out a few of the core points below. If you don’t want to know anything about what I was thinking when I wrote this book, turn back now. ![]() So there’s a barrier we have to maintain between author, text, and audience, a barrier of impersonality and remove. Readers couldn’t discuss a book if they saw that book as a human being. You must, at times, pretend to be no one. I felt like I had to let the book speak for itself.īeing an author carries a strange hollow weight. A few months ago I sold a long essay about my goals in The Traitor Baru Cormorant - artistic goals, yeah, but also human goals. ![]()
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