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as a genre truly wants to embrace all of its fans, and I believe it does, we can't keep lionising a man who used literature as a weapon against entire races. Writers of color… raised our voices collectively, en masse, and the World
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was a tremendously unimaginative and useless act." Older has also been critical of "the popular surge of YA dystopias that followed in the wake of the Hunger Games trilogy," calling it "wildly undiverse." He attributes this lack of diversity to a "phenomenal lack of imagination" on the part of the
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Older's career as a writer began in 2014, in the back of the ambulance where he worked as an EMT in New York City. Older has said that he sees himself as an outsider to the publishing and literary scene. Describing himself as a disruptor, saying, “I entered the writing world clearly and
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strategically to do this thing, to write these books, to get them into the world and fuck with people…to generally fuck shit up.”
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