http://hungryblues.net/2007/09/23/update-from-ashlee/ Searching the life and times of my father, Paul Greenberg Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:33:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://hungryblues.net/2007/09/23/update-from-ashlee/#comment-55223 Brandon Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:02:12 +0000 http://hungryblues.net/2007/09/23/update-from-ashlee/#comment-55223 What a sad sad state when that is passed off as Af-Am lit. I wouldnt even classify it as erotica. What a sad sad state when that is passed off as Af-Am lit. I wouldnt even classify it as erotica.

]]> http://hungryblues.net/2007/09/23/update-from-ashlee/#comment-55204 Ruthie Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:49:12 +0000 http://hungryblues.net/2007/09/23/update-from-ashlee/#comment-55204 If the store has a bay devoted to erotica, why can't the "urban fiction" erotica go there? Cover art aside, if I wrote and published a book of erotica (one that did or did not exploit stereotypes) it wouldn't go with "Jewish fiction"--it would go with erotica. It seems like a much less offensive way of dealing with this material, and would free up the endcaps for displays of the stuff readers go to the African American fiction section to find. If the store has a bay devoted to erotica, why can’t the “urban fiction” erotica go there? Cover art aside, if I wrote and published a book of erotica (one that did or did not exploit stereotypes) it wouldn’t go with “Jewish fiction”–it would go with erotica. It seems like a much less offensive way of dealing with this material, and would free up the endcaps for displays of the stuff readers go to the African American fiction section to find.

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