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Judge the book, not the author.
That old saying was always more pretense than rule, but this week, it’s in the trash bin.
Tuesday afternoon, W.W. Norton announced that it was permanently canceling Blake Bailey’s celebrated new book, “Philip Roth: The Biography” and Bailey’s 2014 memoir, “The Splendid Things We Planned.”…
As the signers of the Simon & Schuster petition proclaim, they don’t want to acquire, edit or promote books by authors who advocate for “racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, misogyny, ableism, islamophobia, antisemitism, and violence.
The petition accuses Simon & Schuster of “complicity in perpetuating white supremacy by publishing Mike Pence.” The statement goes on to say, “This is not a difference of opinions; this is legitimizing bigotry. . . . Mike Pence has literal and figurative blood on his hands.”…
Judge the book, not the author.
That old saying was always more pretense than rule, but this week, it’s in the trash bin.
Tuesday afternoon, W.W. Norton announced that it was permanently canceling Blake Bailey’s celebrated new book, “Philip Roth: The Biography” and Bailey’s 2014 memoir, “The Splendid Things We Planned.”…
As the signers of the Simon & Schuster petition proclaim, they don’t want to acquire, edit or promote books by authors who advocate for “racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, misogyny, ableism, islamophobia, antisemitism, and violence.
The petition accuses Simon & Schuster of “complicity in perpetuating white supremacy by publishing Mike Pence.” The statement goes on to say, “This is not a difference of opinions; this is legitimizing bigotry. . . . Mike Pence has literal and figurative blood on his hands.”…