Linda Sarsour “will not submit to fear”
In February we reported on the efforts of Linda Sarsour—“working woman, racial justice and civil rights activist, every Islamophobe’s worst nightmare, and mother of three”—to raise money for the Jewish… Read more »
Bill O’Reilly can’t go on, Bill O’Reilly’ll go on
It’s been kind of a mixed week for founding Fox News mainstay Bill O’Reilly. On the one hand, he got to meet Melville House author The Pope, whose people were quick to clarify “that no official… Read more »
And lo, it was called Saturday; and it was very good
Hello out there, everybody! First and perhaps most important: congratulations. Another instance of that most bewildering and horrendous of human institutions, the dreaded “week,” has passed, and you, you brave and… 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 »
Right-wing thinker is getting recognized more and more, I notice
Looking for an in to the crummiest reading group of all time? Name dropping Julius Evola just may earn you that seat at the intellectual kids’ table with Milo Yiannopoulos, Richard Spencer, and… Read more »
Amazon’s bestseller list is a futile attempt to impose order on the howling void of everyday life in America
One of the splashier pieces of book-news-during-the-Apocalypse has (alongside the ongoing S&S trainwreck) been the cultural ascendancy of George Orwell’s 1984, which we covered at length a few weeks ago.… Read more »
Simon & Schuster probably would have paid whatever it cost to acquire Hillary Clinton’s next book
And, yeah, I guess I’d do the same thing. After signing up Milo Yiannopoulos’s controversial book Dangerous, and subsequently facing a backlash from booksellers (like this one), publishers (like ours),… 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 »
Here come the jackboots: six journalists charged with felony rioting for observing a riot
As you may have heard, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) released a statement at the beginning of January urging caution to the many voices calling for a boycott of… Read more »