‘Yo, bro, dat bitch ain’t no better than a ho, true dat.’ She’d given the line an aristocratic English snootery…” I’m now supposed to deliver the dialogue of a coke dealer in Crown Heights as if he’s a professor of medieval literature at Oxford. Especially of POCs,” her cleaner Tommy explains.) But Serenata – much like Shriver herself – is flabbergasted. (“It’s kinda not so great for white readers of audiobooks to use accents. Serenata is getting stick online for her accents in audiobooks that she does for a living. It’s no surprise, really, that Shriver’s latest book is taking things even further, ticking all the wrong boxes and prodding at “various silly comical super-sensitivities” like a matador does at a bull that might tear him apart. I admit it, I made fun of it, and you are never meant to make a joke around diversity, but I did,” says Shriver. “I’m not anti-diversity – but I don’t like quotas. Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Shakespeare resurrected his dead son in Hamlet’.Evie Wyld: ‘It’s not the men who are toxic, but masculinity itself’. Alexander McCall Smith: ‘The virus shows us we have abused the world’.
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