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How “Sensitivity Readers” Made Publishing More Racist
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Adam Szetela talks about what happens when the internet mob meets the editor’s desk.

This week on Conversations with Coleman, I’m joined by writer and cultural critic Adam Szetela, author of That Book Is Dangerous! How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing. Its publisher calls it “an alarming exposé of the new challenges to literary freedom in the age of social media, when anyone with an identity and an…

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