damned by faint praise

i like the word play in curtis' title "Terry McMillan - Waiting to excel" but, really, a whole literary history on the black aesthetic movement?

it's significant that most of the review is about that instead of mcmillan's new book.

in fact, this is about as much enthusiasm as he can muster:
The Interruption of Everything may not be a great novel, but it's a far more ambitious one than McMillan has written in years, and it seems like a lurch toward something important.

i stopped reading mcmillan years ago. i thought she was bland. boring. tired. done. cliched.

so, curtis, just break it to us: she's a bad writer. we can take it.