[ SECRET POST #6554 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6554 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I love the possible exception for pets lol.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think I've ever paid attention to the authors of the books I read, the only time I will is if I like their work so I seek out others they've done because I enjoy their stories. Otherwise I don't know anything about them because I don't care, I'm interested in the world they made, not them.

(There are times when it's interesting to hear an author's thoughts on how they created their work, but that's as far as my interest in them goes).

[(Anonymous)]

I had this attitude for a long time and thought I read diverse books but realized most of what I was reading was by white women. I've been trying to ride that line of knowing enough about the author to try and branch out into more representation, but also I don't really want to know anything about the author. I definitely don't follow any of them on social media or anything.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, me neither. I will only find out more about authors when I really love what they did with their storytelling and hope they are equally provocative and original in interviews. But let's be real, Oscar Wilde types who can really bring the same A-game to unstructured conversation as to their prose are rather few and far between.

At one point, I followed DarkMaestroNineteen on Tumblr (before Tumblr got uptight about sexual writing), and that was very worthwhile. But overall, I'm content to let my fave authors be people whose opinions and lives don't intrude on mine at all. And the exceptions to this usually died long before I was born.

I do not push myself to read books written by people in any particular identity category. On the one hand, I think it's useful to have some counterbalance to academia's previous obsession with exhorting people to read an expanding canon of university nerds, but I don't think acting like someone deserves your attention on account of being non-European really accomplishes much. I'm Latin American, and most of the fiction I've encountered that tries to make "being written by a Hispanic author" into any kind of selling point seems to have an extended love affair with postmodern incoherence.

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Yeah I never know anything about the authors I read. All the authors are like X. X. Smith so there’s never any hint. Or they have a first name that could be for anyone of any gender and race.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't follow any authors either and whenever I hear about them, it's usually because they did something stupid online (looking at you, Sarah Dessen).

[(Anonymous)]

What did she allegedly do?

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't an accusation, it's a genuine question: how do you know you read diverse if you don't know "what boxes the authors tick"? I didn't pay attention to what authors I read either, but when I looked at my list of books last year I finally noticed all but a couple were by women. So reading all or mostly one type of "box" can happen by accident if you're not paying attention.

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I mean, presumably author names and book subjects might be a tip-off?