Upcoming tome stirs things up
BESIDES the WhyCan’t-We-All-Just-Get-Along cry going up the poop, Wednesday it again went up in flames.
Recap: Right-winger Milo Yiannopoulos. Greek-born Brit. Breitbart News editor. Gay. Bounced off Twitter for his “supervillain” anti-political correctness.
His last week’s invite by Republican students at U of California, Berkeley, resulted in police, protests, violence, demonstrations, pepper spray, flames, arrests, objects thrown, bodies in lockdown. Security blocked some, faculty blocked others.
Some authors pulled their submissions when Simon & Schuster bought his book outline for $250,000.
E pluribus unum. Onefor-all-all-for-one. Land of the Free speech, Home of the Driven.
New news: His book title is “Dangerous.” There’s a co-writer. Pushing this dialogue himself, he personally made the rounds of publishers. As we speak it’s being minutely examined by lawyers. No photographs.
Inching through wall-towall editors, the size of its first printing is not yet decided, although Simon & Schuster is known for publishing political works. The copy price? Around $25.
Called racist, acknowledged provocateur, controversial, it’s all his ideas. He writes of his sexuality, free speech, why cam- puses can’t have dialogue with those who don’t agree, and why full-on war could be coming to a head. He asks why those who disagree get trashed inside Starbucks. He asks why people lack a right to their own opinion.
Oddly, Threshold, an S&S subprint, published a campaign-time book about Donald Trump. And Hillary is now grinding out a volume of personal essays. Pubdate, this fall. Publisher? Simon & Schuster.