âYou feel yourself trying to write from an African-American perspective that is not fully represented, and in your mind, to the extent there is any audience, you see yourself as writing for African-Americans who are like you, who are somewhat frustrated about things â the book is for them, in that sense, itâs for that feeling. Itâs not that you donât want other people to read it, but then the entire book becomes like that, about what white people think about it. Even as you try to write away from it.
I saw this SNL skit a couple weeks back called âThe Bubble,â where you could retreat from Trump. And a signature of the bubble was a young white woman reading Between the World and Me. And thatâs what it means to be in the bubble.â