Today's guest is Rueben Tihi Hayslett who confronts identity politics, racism, and homophobia in his debut short story collection, Dark Corners, which has been selected by Kirkus reviews as best book of the year for 2019 Hayslett's characters, most of them black, brown, and/or queer have their personal problems complicated by their outsider status, by ominous politics, and by occasional eruptions of madness and the macabre. Tihi joined me today to talk about writing and art as a form of protest.

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