American Dirt

A place-holder for some of the many articles written as part of (or about) the controversy over American Dirt:

• David J. Schmidt, “‘American Dirt’ Isn’t Just Bad — Its Best Parts Are Cribbed From Latino Writers” (Huffington Post)
• Alex Shephard, “How Not to Write a Book Review” (The New Republic)
• Alex Zaragoza, “The ‘American Dirt’ Controversy Illustrates the Media’s Thirst for Immigrant Trauma Porn” (Vice)
• “American Dirt: Oprah book club pick suffers Latino backlash” (BBC)
• Esmeralda Bermúdez, “Commentary: ‘American Dirt’ is what happens when Latinos are shut out of the book industry” (Los Angeles Times)
• Frederick Luis Aldama, “Brownface Minstrelsy; or a Defense of Our Freedom in the Art of Latinx Storytelling?” (Latinx Spaces)
• Myriam Gurber, “Pendeja, You Ain’t Steinbeck: My Bronca with Fake-Ass Social Justice Literature” (Tropics of Meta)

There’s a lot more, of course.