In his new book, The Message, Coates likens his books to his children, better left to make their way through the world while he, the protective author, hung back.
Teachers and librarians were standing up for his work, often at great risk; to decide that his writing could speak for itself was a privilege.
Coates’s recent shift in focus to international experiences demonstrates a new approach, characterized by a harder-edged fury rather than elegiac cadences.
Now, in The Message, he addresses himself to young writers everywhere whose task is nothing less than doing the necessary work of change.
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