Alonzo Vereen > Recent Status Updates

This is starting to read like what happens when the writing advice “Don’t think about the reader” goes to far. No, think about me. Consider me and my small readerly needs, Melville. I’m as important as all these whales.

So much wisdom here. So many jewels.

This Black dialect is insanely bad

Not feeling the male to female ratio here. 120 pages in and I’ve only come across two profiles on women and one poem by a woman.

Stunning photography and the polyphonic voice makes for a rich, immersive touch

I think I’m finally clear of that frustratingly digressive middle bit…not entirely sure Melville will redeem himself after it