‘Unclear, unfunny, delete’: editor’s notes on Milo Yiannopoulos book revealed | Books | The Guardian

Court documents filed in the US have revealed the editorial concerns of the publisher Simon & Schuster about the manuscript of the “alt-right” controversialist Milo Yiannopoulos’s autobiography Dangerous. Having reportedly secured the book for an advance of $255,000 (£200,000), Simon & Schuster cancelled the deal in February after a recording emerged that appeared to show…

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Choire Sicha, the Anti-Blogger | The New Yorker

react-text: 137 There may be no more direct metric of social influence than one’s ability to change language. Getting your friends to talk like you, after all, is a hallmark of adolescent power (“Gretchen, stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen! It’s not going to happen!” barks Regina George, blond queen bee of the 2004 teen…

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‘Beauty and the Beast’ Comes From a Long Line of Stories About Women Hooking Up With Animals

“At last he turned to her and said, ‘Am I so very ugly?’” Wood engraving by Walter Crane, 1896. Via the New York Public Library’s digital collections. Beauty and the Beast is officially a box office hit, and so the Disney live-action remake machine will continue to clank merrily along, churning out entertaining movies billed…

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