Defend your writers, publishers, or be damned: how the books trade went woke – The Times

While finishing her latest book, the novelist Lionel Shriver says she was advised to remove some passages about identity politics, supposedly out of a desire to protect me from my critics. Another successful author, who writes for the young adult market, is currently transposing the setting of her novel across continents after a sensitivity reader rejected the idea that she, a white woman, could portray the Asian adolescent experience.
Even the bonkbuster queen Jilly Cooper was told by her publisher…

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