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 »
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 »
Some stuff not to be miserable about
Well, you survived another week. We all did. And we’re all to be congratulated, frankly, as the prospect of about 208 far less survivable weeks lurks just over the horizon. Here… Read more »