The Quagmire of Male Readership by Omar Tyree
More than 25 years ago when I still had a hard-driving Black woman literary agent from the tough city of Detroit, Michigan, to pitch my books to the publishers, I was complaining so badly about the lack of readership from Black men that was seriously impacting my writing career, that my agent finally exploded on me and said, “Omar! Would you stop talking about these Black men and reading! They’re not going to do it! These men won’t read a book even if you gave it to them! And if you’re that concerned about it, you need to start a […]
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More than 25 years ago when I still had a hard-driving Black woman literary agent from the tough city of Detroit, Michigan, to pitch my books to the publishers, I was complaining so badly about the lack of readership from Black men that was seriously impacting my writing career, that my agent finally exploded on me and said, “Omar! Would you stop talking about these Black men and reading! They’re not going to do it! These men won’t read a book even if you gave it to them! And if you’re that concerned about it, you need to start a […]
