Early this month, author Terry McMillan (Disappearing Acts, Waiting to Exhale) fired off a letter blasting "poorly written black oriented titles--novels that depict wall-to-wall crime, sex, violence and hip hop ghetto-fabulousness. (The Nation)"
Learn more about what McMillan said, and how so-called "ghetto lit" is crowding more deserving black titles off the bookstore shelves, in The Nation.
