8 Books on the Evils of Unchecked State Power - Electric Literature

8 Books on the Evils of Unchecked State Power - Electric Literature

You don’t write books for a single reason, or out of any one feeling. I wrote a novel because I wanted to record images and experiences of a brown man’s American life. I wanted to reflect, in my own version of the language, on love, fatherhood, sex, music, money, fate. But I also wanted to write about how ambition could lead a twenty-first century quiet American to do great evil. This last impulse came out of my anger at a specific period of Ame…