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Jan 21, 2020 · American Dirt has been the subject of controversy and criticism since 2019, when early readers first offered their opinions after seeing advance copies.
Jan 22, 2020 · The controversy over the new immigration novel American Dirt, explained. A non-Mexican author wrote a book about Mexican migrants. Critics are calling it trauma porn. On January 21, Oprah...
Jan 26, 2023 · Looking back now, it’s clear that the “American Dirt” debacle of January 2020 was a harbinger, the moment when the publishing world lost its confidence and ceded moral authority to the worst...
Jan 24, 2020 · Latinx writers and critics are speaking out against Jeanine Cummins' new book American Dirt, calling its depiction of the migrant experience inauthentic and harmful. We asked Cummins to respond.
Jan 21, 2020 · American Dirt. The controversy about Jeanine Cummins’ novel encompasses appropriation, cries of silencing, and four separate New York Times stories. By Rachelle Hampton. Jan 21, 20206:13 PM...
Jan 27, 2020 · The novel "American Dirt" hit bookstores in a way most authors can only dream of: a seven-figure bidding war for the publishing rights, a movie option prior to publication, and a selection for...
Jan 5, 2021 · Activists began to organize protests, intending to hold them along the route of Cummins’s planned 40-stop book tour across the country. One of the stops was Blue Willow Bookshop, a store in a ...
Jan 30, 2020 · The American Dirt Controversy Is Painfully Intramural. Novels can change minds, but this novel won’t. By Randy Boyagoda. Flatiron Books. January 30, 2020. Imagine if a controversial novel about a...
Nov 6, 2020 · The controversy surrounding the publication of American Dirt, a novel by Jeanine Cummins, has resulted in a firestorm: detractors claim the author lacks the credibility to write a story about...
Jan 26, 2020 · Jan. 26, 2020 7 AM PT. It was poised to be a blockbuster long before copies arrived in bookstores last week: a thrilling contemporary migration story following a mother and her son, desperate to...
