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A brief goodbye to Substack Please forgive how short this newsletter is today. I’m in the process of transferring my Substack account over to Ghost and if all goes according to plan, you won’t notice much of a change. Paid subscribers won’t have to do anything (except
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A book ban isn't a badge of honor; it's a serious violation of fundamental rights by small-minded people who want to be the arbiters of taste and morality for all.
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I'm so, so sorry but I used the word "gaslighting" in this newsletter and I might do it again.
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Yesterday, within the space of minutes, I saw two pieces of info on Bluesky that made me, once again, despair for the state of media — and book coverage, specifically.
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How can publishers possibly protect authors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers from hate, from vilification, from criminalization, while simultaneously publishing the architects of such plans?
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You will either come away from this with new insight into the quagmire of contemporary book coverage, or you will simply see me as an overthinker extraordinaire with not enough hobbies.
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"Books that craft Jewish characters to embody the endurance of the human spirit in all its nobility are, in fact, denying these characters’ humanity." --Ilana Masad on Holocaust Beach Reads
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I’d like to point out that the book is called Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters; it isn’t called Why Hamas Is Cool and We Support Them.
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"What we demand of authors who cross racial or cultural lines is that they do so with the adequate amount of skill and respect." Yep, Jeanine Cummins has a new novel.
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I could surely choose 11 titles published solely by PRH in 2024 and have a pretty stellar year-end list. AND THAT IS A PROBLEM.
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It’s not new that successful books are copied many times over to try to capitalize on a trend, like how we saw a zillion sadistic billionaire romance novels post- 50 Shades of Grey. But still...