And Jay, it’s very good to see you again. It’s a projection experiment all the way down.īut then it got me thinking, what if it had been good? Would that change how I feel about it? This is a debate it seems like we can’t stop having as a culture - who gets to write outside their identities, what we do when they get it really, really wrong and what does it say if they get it right? And that’s what Roxane and Jay are here to talk about. jane coastonīut separate from being a bad movie, the book it’s based on is a bad attempt by a white woman to write what she thought Black people in the South, at a different time from the time she lived in, would have been like.
Remember that book about Black maids in the deep South? People loved it, but I hate it. But I actually brought them together to talk about an issue that seems to crop up every year. The older I get, the more I’m like, why didn’t they just pay rent? Anyway, that is not the point. As someone who hates the musical, “Rent”- roxane gay This week, I’m joined by Times Opinion writers Roxane Gay and Jay Caspian Kang to talk about very important things, like musical theater. Two writers debate writing across identity lines - and how to respond when an author gets it really wrong. Transcript Who Can Write About What? A Conversation With Roxane Gay and Jay Caspian Kang.
