At a time when genre movies are so dominant, any chance to sit down with a small film that just wants to talk about regular life is more than welcome. Such is the case with writer-director, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday. The movie, adapted from, intends to have a good, long chat, one that stimulates and entertains even if it ends without any concrete resolutions.
Monk is also unmoored in his industry. He observes, with disgust, that where Black authors are concerned, white-run publishing houses are interested only in ornate litanies of horror: brutal stories of inner-city gang life and drug addiction. An up-and-coming author, Sintara Golden , is finding great success with a novel called, feted at conferences and spoken about in reverent tones.
Perhaps one cause of that discordance is that Everett’s novel was published in 2001 as a parodic rebuke of novels like, which Everett saw as a prime example of the urban misery porn that Black writers were being railroaded into writing by market demand. That trope has certainly not died out, but Everett’s indictment of it perhaps had more pertinent bite in its own day. White culture’s appetite for Black stories has not necessarily improved since then, but it has evolved into new complications.
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