Oh dear god this Marie Calloway discussion will never end. The latest piece about her new book, written for Flavorwire by a friend of hers , is muddled by idle swats at the patriarchy and a weird insistence that Calloway doesn't have to be a good writer because she's appealing to contemporary gender/identity politics and is thus addressing Important Issues.

Which, I mean, good for her, but oppression under the brutal shithammer of the patriarchy doesn't excuse flat prose and the boring repetiti...