Re-reading a Hail and Farewell to James Alan McPherson
Today, on the second anniversary of James Alan McPherson’s passing, we’re revisiting this moving remembrance Melville House co-director Dennis Johnson wrote of him. It was originally published just a few days after McPherson… Read more »
Publishing During Wartime (Those who forget past blogging are doomed to repeat it)
The year is winding down, and we’re officially on hiatus. But, seeing as how internets gonna internet, we’re using this time to look back on some of our favorite posts… Read more »
Bad guy vs. bad guy redux: Bad guy wins again!
As Donald Trump continues to use Twitter to give definition to the word smear, two trends of thought preoccupying the right-minded in the book industry collided the other day on… Read more »
Publishing during wartime: Chickens, roosting
Milo Yiannopoulos went down in flames yesterday — spectacularly so, in a way that will likely leave him a regular guest on the Bill Maher show but unemployed and radioactive forever… Read more »
Publishing during wartime, part IX: The flying monkeys multiply, but so does the opposition
On the day when the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report about a dramatic rise in hate groups that it blamed on “the Trump phenomenon” … on the day… Read more »
Publishing during wartime, part VIII: Enter the rainmaker?
Over water coolers throughout the book industry, discussion of the Milo Yiannopoulos book deal with Simon and Schuster is still raging. The overwhelming consensus is clear: Shame on Carolyn Reidy… Read more »
Publishing during wartime, part VII: Enter the Black Bloc, exit discernment
It was no surprise, but one has to wonder what the muckety-mucks at Simon and Schuster thought yesterday when Donald Trump made it official: He’s a huuuuge supporter of hate-speech monger… Read more »
Publishing during wartime, part VI: The growing resistance
If you want to see how Donald Trump’s not-so-peculiar brand of fascism could successfully roll out across America, you could do worse than making a study of what’s going on… Read more »
Publishing during wartime, part V: The violence begins
So what do you get when you send a fascist provocateur out on a pre-publication book tour of college campuses? What should have been expected, that’s what: A riot culminating with… Read more »
Milo Yiannopoulos’s original publisher named PW’s Publisher of the Year