Apparently this interview spawned a bunch of book discourse yesterday but was never linked to. There are nearly 5,000 words of context here as to why an author might decide to not write a second book right now. I really hope folks read it. www.talkscratch.com/colette-shad...
Rahawa Haile
My long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.
“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”
