If I rewrite The Grapes of Wrath with Syrian refugees in place

reminder to sage all frogshit

>>8809463
That's a toad

>>8809448
Nah I've got the Pulitzer locked up with my novel about seducing Elliot Rodger and saving him from dying as a kissless virgin

>>8809448
Do it

Yes.

only if you're a person of color.

Pretend to be Syrian.

Try to get sued by the Steinbeck estate, a la The Wind Done Gone.

>>8809552
5/7 of the 2015 pulitzers for belles lettres went to white people

i don't think the Okies ever got shelled to get them out of their ramshackle houses, but i'd have to re-read Grapes of Wrath to be sure.

>>8809883
Worse, their houses got nudged by tractors 'til they fell down.

Only if you call it the rapes of wrath

>>8809890
heh. they should have built the shacks on runners so the tractors could push them all the way to Californy.

>pretend to be a POC
>rewrite the odyssey, but set it in the Deep South of the 1960s
>play the racism angle up to the nth degree, really make whitey feel bad
>make sure Penelope is a white woman, it'll be "provocative" and "strong"
>win every award imaginable