Writer Gabriel Bump discusses his debut novel “Everywhere You Don’t Belong” with Salon’s D. Watkins. Bump’s short chapters use humor to discuss the pressures his teenage protagonist Claude McKay Love faces growing up in Chicago—including inferiority, racism, violence and bullying. Bump and Watkins also discuss being authors of color in the publishing industry, representation and what writers get to tell which stories.

“Everywhere You Don’t Belong” is available now.