Commentary: 'American Dirt' fiasco exposes publishing industry that's too consolidated, too white

In an early chapter of “American Dirt,” the much-hyped novel now at the center of a racial controversy, the protagonist, Lydia, fills her Acapulco, Mexico, bookstore with her favorite literary classics. Because these don't sell very well, she also stocks all “the ...

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