Bites the dust… Now they’re after Ernest Hemingway!
Readers have now been warned. Anyone in our enlightened age who is crazy and daring enough to read Ernest Hemingway, an author who is not a person of color, not trans, and not a victim of white patriarchal oppression, will now be waved off by Hemingway’s own publisher.
The UK’s Telegraph revealed Saturday that Penguin Random House, which publishes Hemingway’s novels and stories, has slapped them with “a trigger warning” due to “concerns about his ‘language’ and ‘attitudes.’” Hapless new Hemingway readers are also “alerted to the novelist’s ‘cultural representations.”
Full article, HERE from PJ Media.
This is getting old…
And it seems Randy Penguin is involved in a bunch of these. One wonders why and who is in charge over there…
Just one more reason I’m glad I’m a Z-list indie author!
“One wonders why and who is in charge over there…”
Let’s take a look then, shall we? https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/management/
Overall CEO is Nihar Malaviya. “… An important part of his growth strategy is advancing Penguin Random House’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion commitments and meeting the company’s sustainability goals.”
This is like a bad Zombie movie. “They’re infected!”
Ag- Sigh… good point!
Best be wary of Amazon and POD services. Never know who or what will decide on the final edit.
PK- Yeah, watching that VERY carefully…
It’d be interesting if whoever holds the Hemingway copyright sued them for changing the book… but I doubt it will happen.
I wonder how Penguin sales are doing? Is all this part of an attempt to bolster flagging sales?