Great piece of writing from US Esquire this month, in an article about author Colson Whitehead:
“Everybody digs Colson Whitehead. Since we’re talking literary fiction here, let it be understood that when I say everybody, I mean hardly anyone. I mean aging former English majors who wear bookish specs. I mean editors at The New Yorker and reviewers at The New York Times. Try to find a bad review. Google your eyes out. Even when heavyweights criticize his work, they also go to great lengths to assure their readers that they very much dig the author. If you suspect I’m jealous of Whitehead, I am.”
