Midnight Taxi Tango by Daniel José Older

Ha! I really enjoy Twitter and I’ve found, process-wise, that once I’ve hit my stride on the page, I can easily jump back and forth between a novel and tweets without losing flow. How has the internet informed your writing? And ultimately, world building has to be in the service of story, so I tend to let the parts of this changing landscape that speak to the larger narrative shine through. I write the Brooklyn I know and love, with as much complexity and life as I can muster. All this would seem like great story ingredients, but because race is involved and the vastly white publishing industry hasn’t shown itself to be especially interested in dealing with nuances of race and power, we end up with very whitewashed versions of the city in a lot of books.

It’s a slowly unfolding tragedy and full of magic and culture and love. cities, this one is a crossroads of past and present, race, class, gender, and a whole slew of other messy power plays. Brooklyn is not an all-white borough, contrary to what so many books and shows tell us, and New York is not an all-white city. What are you thinking about when you write about this place?Ī lot of this ongoing push for diversity is simply about fighting for literature that tells the truth about the world we live in. You write fantastic (in multiple senses of the word) novels set in Brooklyn. Ask him for his medical license, he’ll show it to you. He also worked as a New York City paramedic for decade.

By Molly McArdle New York Times- bestselling author of the Bone Street Rumba series (most recently Midnight Taxi Tango ) and the YA novel Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older melds a career of writing Brooklyn-based fantasy and noir with urgent and persuasive literary activism, as seen in his essays and his Twitter feed.

Midnight Taxi Tango by Daniel José Older