The book might be shit, and probably is, but I'm buying one tomorrow new on Ammy just to show my support for this woman, whomever she is. I do not like the fascism I see in this case and in many other cases.

I've done this before. Several decades ago a group of religious zealots decided to picket a small c-store which sold skin mags. Skin mags bad, you see. I parked my car in the store parking lot, walked in, bought about 10 skin mags and walked back out to my car, but not until I held them up and waved them at the zealots. I gave them to a homeless fellow. He was gratified, or soon would be.

I bought a bunch of Paula Deen cookbooks a few years ago when she was being crucified by the left. Had them sent to a small library in the Texas Panhandle.

I encourage everyone to do this; it's a way of fighting back against the elites who presume to tell us what to read.

Jack London didn't have to be a sled dog to write about one.

Maybe he identified as one?

ostensibly due to "safety concerns."

Well, the antifa types tend to believe that a beating is good for the soul, so maybe not so ostensibly.

Sounds like a fun read! Drama, action, adventure...

Since natives writing about aliens is verboten, what does that mean for science fiction? After all Klingons are a minority in the Federation.

Roadgeek, maybe you didn't know this, but a LOT of people were pretty angry at Paula Deen BEFORE her racist comments. Why? She had peddling her very unhealthful recipes since 1997 or so, but in 2008 or 2009, she was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes - and then hid the fact until January 2012.

I.e., it's likely her remarks were merely the last straw.

Btw, The New York Times recently publsihed these letters:

Re “Hype Over Novel on Migrants Turns Into Backlash for Author” (front page, Jan. 26):

The critics of Jeanine Cummins assert that she is guilty of appropriation because the protagonist in her novel “American Dirt” is a Mexican woman fleeing the drug cartel, and Ms. Cummins is not. Therefore, Shakespeare should not have written “Othello,” Joyce “Ulysses,” Flaubert “Madame Bovary” or George Eliot “Silas Marner.” Everyone is condemned to write autobiographies.

It’s fiction! “There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book,” Oscar Wilde said. “Books are well written, or badly written.” Picasso added that “art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

The lies of Ms. Cummins’s critics threaten all art.

David Jelinek
New York

To the Editor:

Was Harriet Beecher Stowe guilty of “enslavement porn” or “cultural appropriation” when she wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?

Yes, it is a sentimental, stereotyped portrayal of enslaved people in the South by a white woman, but it was a runaway best seller and helped turn the tide of public opinion against slavery in the 1850s.

More power to Jeanine Cummins, the author of “American Dirt,” if she’s written a book that will likewise create sympathy and understanding for the plight of desperate migrants fleeing murder and torture.

Let’s worry about authorial purity once we’ve come a little closer to social justice.

Jane Zimmerman
Palo Alto, CA

It's just the Twitter mob seeping out into the real world.

Screaming seems to be all they do, really.

Republicans suck!
Yeah, they suck!
Oh man, you are so right about Republicans sucking!
We have to remove all the Republicans!
Here we go, we're removing the Republicans!
Wooh, we're wiping out those Nazis! Wooh!

ad nauseum.

If you are white then you can only have white characters in your book? Aren't you racist then? If you are white male then only white male characters in your book? What they are demanding is the end of fiction. Why do we not applaud the author for making an hispanic woman the protagonist? idiots.