Artists, literary and otherwise, not only don’t stay in their lane, they go against traffic. And they often avoid the highway altogether! They swim! They fly! We ought to encourage conscientious border trespass, conscientious border abolition. That is, we ought to encourage writers to write compassionately, lovingly, and otherwise intelligently and empathetically from the imagined perspective or perspectives of an “other” or “others.” In fact, this is arguably what all great writers...
