![]() Her decision follows a letter sent to authors by the Simon & Schuster president and CEO, Carolyn Reidy, reassuring them of the book’s content. The editor of the Chicago Review of Books announced the publication would not review any Simon & Schuster books this year because the company “peddles hate speech for profit”.īut Gay, an associate professor at Purdue University, a New York Times columnist and the author of multiple books, including Bad Feminist, a bestselling 2014 collection of essays, is the first major author to stop her publishing relationship with the company. His book Dangerous received a $250,000 advance from Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, horrifying many in the publishing industry. Yiannopoulos gained public notoriety after he was banned from Twitter for leading a racist and sexist campaign against the female-starring Ghostbusters reboot and the Saturday Night Live comedian Leslie Jones. “I was supposed to turn the book in this month and I kept thinking about how egregious it is to give someone like Milo a platform for his blunt, inelegant hate and provocation,” she said. ![]() “I just couldn’t bring myself to turn the book in,” Gay said in a statement to BuzzFeed News, explaining that her upcoming book How to Be Heard was to be published through TED Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
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