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Thursday, January 28, 2021

De Chiara Literary Agency Fires Agent for Using Right-Wing Social Media Platforms

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 Katie Smith 3 Comments Colleen Oefelein, Gab, Jennifer De Chiara, Jesse Singal, Marissa Corvisiero, Parler, Sasha White, Thomas Chatterton Williams

Anti-cancel culture Tweeters call the termination ‘absolute madness’

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Seven Books to Look Forward to in 2021

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Crying in H Mart, Daniel Loedel, Elemental, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie, Martha Waters, Melissa Broder, Michelle Zauner, Milk Fed, Patricia Lockwood, To Love and To Loathe

Serious, sad edition

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New Yorker Staff Demand Higher Wages

January 22, 2021January 25, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alex Zaragosa, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Jo Livingstone, New Yorker, New Yorker Union, Rashida Tlaib, Shane Smith, Talia Lavin, Vice

Fellow media members and lawmakers supported them online

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Literary Twitter Goes Rooney Tunes Over New Sally Rooney Novel Announcement

January 14, 2021January 13, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Amber Sparks, Beautiful World Where Are You, Brandon Taylor, Elisa Gabbert, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, Hulu, Lorrie Moore, Mitzi Angel, Normal People, Sally Rooney

Buy stock in Kleenex for September 2021

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Ngo is a No-Go at Powell’s

January 12, 2021January 18, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Andy Ngo, Portland, Powell's Books, Proud Boys, Sarah Jeong, Unmasked

Portland bookstore pulls anti-Antifa book after protests

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Simon & Schuster De-Platforms Josh Hawley

January 7, 2021January 11, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Bob Woodward, Donald Trump, James Gunn, John Bolton, Josh Hawley, Mary L. Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sean Hannity, Simon & Schuster, Tucker Carlson

After supporting Capitol attack, Missouri Senator loses his publisher

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Cancel Culture: The Lit-World Year In Review

December 29, 2020January 4, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Abigail Shrier, American Dirt, Apropos Of Nothing, J.K. Rowling, Jeanne Cummins, Jordan Peterson, Joseph Epstein, Julie Burchill, Marisa Corvisiero, Sasha White, Tobias Literary Agency, Woody Allen

Most of 2020’s ‘canceled’ books are actually doing quite well, thank you

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Will You Accept This Feminist Critique of ‘The Bachelorette”?

December 16, 2020December 18, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Ali Barthwell, Chris Harrison, Clare, Colton Barthwell, Lana del Rey, Tayshia, The Bachelorette

I second that performative feminine emotion

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The Best Books of 2020

December 9, 2020December 15, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Avi Steinberg, Brian Washington, David Mitchell, Devolution, Josh Malerman, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Kim Stanley Robinson, M.R. Carey, Malorie, MARK LANEGAN, Max Brooks, Memorial, The Book of Kofi, The Happily Ever After, The Ministry For the Future, The Undocumented Americans, Utopia Avenue

Nine critics name their favorite books to guide your holiday shopping

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Twitter Dismisses David Sedaris for ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ Appearance

December 7, 2020December 17, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments CBS Sunday Morning, Charlotte Clymer, David Sedaris

The satirist suggested citizens should be allowed to fire customer-service workers for poor performance

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Ready Player Two Gets DCMA’ed

December 2, 2020December 3, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Ballantine Books, Ernest Cline, Laura Hudson, Ready Player One, Ready Player Two

Publisher removes excerpts of the novel from Twitter as users turn it into a meme

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Publishing Staff Protest New Jordan Peterson Book

November 26, 2020December 2, 2020 Katie Smith 2 Comments Helen Dale, Jordan Peterson, Penguin Randomhouse Canada, Tucker Carlson, Vice

The ‘Professor Against Political Correctness’ has 12 more rules to live by

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Twitter Tries to Curb Cazzie David

November 19, 2020December 24, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Cazzie David, Larry David, No One Asked For This, Pete Davidson

Larry David’s daughter’s memoir is bad, but not all bad

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Target Pulls Anti-Trans Book from Shelves

November 13, 2020November 28, 2020 Katie Smith 4 Comments

Supporters of author Abigail Shrier decry the store’s censorship

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You Better Work

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Anne Helen Petersen, Buzzfeed, Can't Even

‘Can’t Even’ offers a history of U.S. labor, and defends burnt-out millennials

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