“If an agent submits a manuscript written by a gay transgender Caribbean who dropped out of school at seven and travels around on a mobility scooter, it will be published”
– Lionel Shriver, author of “We Need To Talk About Kevin,” arguing that even if a book is “incoherent, tedious, meandering and insensible, “it will matter less than the identity of the writer.”
– from her Profile in The New Yorker, June 1, 2020
