I was on the Current Affairs podcast again recently, talking to the always amazing and hilarious Lyta Gold about the state of publishing. To quote the description, “Yasmin Nair and Lyta Gold talk publishing scandals, “authenticity”, cultural appropriation, feminism and more. This episode was recorded a little while back, but it doesn’t devalue the conversation because variations on the specific events they describe occur over and over again, on a weekly basis, forever.”
We talked about, among other things, why the publishing world pays so little to some and too much to others, the ridiculousness of the American Dirt controversy, our opinions on specific writers, and more.
You can listen to the episode here.
I also published an essay on related matters in the magazine, and you can read “The Politics of Publishing” here.