Eskor David Johnson is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. His debut novel, <a href="https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/pay-as-you-go">Pay As You Go,</a> was named a 2023 NPR Book of the Year and short-listed for the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Eskor David Johnson

Black Artists and the Logic of the Market: On Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Eskor David Johnson is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. His debut novel, <a href="https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/pay-as-you-go">Pay As You Go,</a> was named a 2023 NPR Book of the Year and short-listed for the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Eskor David Johnson

Articles

Black Artists and the Logic of the Market: On Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction”