Roxane Gay Pulls Out of Simon and Schuster Deal Due to Milo Yiannopoulos Controversy

BroadwayWorld reported earlier this month that Simon & Schuster signed a book deal with controversial alt-right author Milo Yiannopoulos, which resulted in harsh reaction from readers everywhere.

Chicago Review of Books announced it would not cover a single Simon & Schuster book in 2017. Author Roxanne Gay, who penned best-selling book, BAD FEMINIST, said on Twitter, "Whew. When I saw that Milo had a book deal I whispered, please don't let it be my publisher."

This week she decided to pull the book from the publisher, saying in a statement to BuzzFeed, "I was supposed to turn the book in this month and I kept thinking about how egregious it is to give someone like Milo a platform for his blunt, inelegant hate and provocation. I just couldn't bring myself to turn the book in. My editor emailed me last week and I kept staring at that email in my inbox and finally over the weekend I asked my agent to pull the book."

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Roxane Gay's writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, and Difficult Women and Hunger forthcoming in 2017. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel.