Woke books that were bought for huge advances by inexperienced editors have flopped commercially, insiders say, including a $500,000 'queer feminist' novel (3,500 copies) and Elliot Page's $3m trans memoir (68,000 copies).
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The corrosive, killjoy woke ideology is killing art and literature by imposing intolerable rules like a ban on 'cultural appropriation', says Lionel Shriver. "My response to rules I don’t accept is to break them."
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The BBC and their fact checker brethren want you to be deathly afraid of the latest scourge threatening to tear apart society at its seams: the newspaper! That’s right, it seems that the establishment is freaking out at the crop of independently published and distributed newspapers that activists are printing in various countries around the …
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a colour photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to […]
A discussion about independent publishing and censorship with CJ Hopkins (Consent Factory), Søren Kristoffersen (Det Poetiske Bureau), Robert Cibis (OVALmedia), Kit Knightly (Off-Guardian), Simon Elmer (Architects for Social Housing), Elze van Hamelen (De Andere Krant), and perhaps a special guest or two. The above stream will be going live at 2pm UK time (3pm CET, …
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker
Writing or otherwise saying lies should be civilly but not criminally illegal, but publishing lies needs to remain entirely legal unless the publisher has not practiced due diligence to exclude falsehoods.
Greg Johnson joins Henrik to talk about the recent book purge by Amazon.
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According to witnesses who were present at the meeting – a private conversation with Australian news publishers and broadcasters, Facebook’s head of news partnerships told the group that if they do not work with Facebook that their businesses would die.
Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist and author from Virginia. His books include How Nonviolence Protects the State, Consensus, Anarchy Works, The Failure of Nonviolence, the travel narrative To Get to the Other Side, and the collection of short stories Sousa in the Echo Chamber. He currently lives in Barcelona, where he takes part in ongoing social struggles.
We’ll be seeing an interview of Mae-wan Ho, a 72-year-old “geneticist known for her critical views on genetic engineering and neo-Darwinism. Ho has authored or co-authored a number of publications, including 10 books, such as The Rainbow and the Worm, the Physics of Organisms (1993, 1998), Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare? (1998, 1999), and Living with the Fluid Genome (2003).” [Wikipedia]. That is forthcoming.
