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 »
Publishing during wartime, part IV: Learning from history
Whether you are among those joining the boycott against Simon & Schuster for publishing hate speech monger Milo Yiannopoulos or not, the Martin Luther King holiday weekend was a moving… Read more »
Publishing during wartime, part III: Protest of S&S and “gaslighting” is growing
The protest of Simon and Schuster’s decision to publish Dangerous, a book by hate speech monger Milo Yiannopoulos, seems to be growing, as does protest over the way industry biggies… Read more »
Publishing during wartime, part II
In yet another heart-rending sign of HOW THE LEFT IS PROBABLY GOING TO BLOW THE WAR AGAINST TRUMP, many of the publishing industry’s leading trade organizations including the Authors Guild,… Read more »