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A Blog About Books and Reading
"Once a book with a big advance is in-house ... it gets no special treatment," McIntosh said on the stand.
An online poster told Rowling, "don't worry you are next."
"This is the final victory of the censor: when people cease to be able to imagine a non-censorious society."
The author, who spent years in the 1980s and ’90s in hiding from an Iranian death sentence, was preparing to give a speech when he was assaulted.
On his release, Woodfox, who staunchly maintained his innocence in the murder he was accused of, dedicated himself to educating others about systemic racism.
Plett's own debut collection of short fiction, A Safe Girl to Love, is being reissued by her current publisher, Vancouver's Arsenal Pulp Press.
Dohle suggested on the stand that publishers resembled the "Silicon Valley of media" and compared their work to that of angel investors in business.
Thompson's wild, violent, funny, anarchic book chronicles a motorcycle derby, an extended drug binge, and – most significantly – the corrosion of the American Dream.
"When I started in this business, there were literally hundreds of imprints, and some of them were run by people with extremely idiosyncratic tastes, one might say."
One need not agree with everything the author writes or believes in order to recognize the importance of his memoir as a document of the LGBTQ+ community's development in Canada.