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How come you ain’t never like me? (opens the original)
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I write about fathers and sons because there are things that I wish I could’ve said to my own father. Things I never had the chance to say, but linger stubbornly in my imagination. I suppose one might call these obsessions. My writing is a letter to him, like so many Black men who write in the tradition of James Baldwin. Though unlike Baldwin, I don’t wish to slay my father. I just want to understand him.I was talking to a friend yesterday and we landed on the topic of Black fathers. I’m a Black
Update on My Short Story Collection (opens the original)
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