Ariel Bogle has a good round up over on Moby Lives about Paypal, Amazon, Apple, and censorship in publishing.
Money, not ethics, ultimately motivates censorship
Junot Díaz’s Twitter Fiction
As part of the ongoing Miami Book Fair International festivities, WLRN is giving readers a chance to co-author a story with Junot Díaz. Beginning at 5pm today, they will tweet out the first line to a story—provided by Díaz—from their Twitter account. Then readers will use the hashtag “#WLRNStory” to add onto Díaz’s line, and later each other’s lines, and ultimately the entire thing will unfurl before them.
In Kanye Land
What happens when you put one of the biggest literary egos together with music's biggest ego? A movie. Bret Easton Ellis is working with Kanye West on a film. "He came and asked me to write the film," Ellis told Vice. "I didn't want to at first. Then I listened to Yeezus...I thought, regardless of whether I'm right for this project, I want to work with whoever made this." This is an interesting pairing because Kanye definitely isn't a reader.
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The Right Side of History
"I write, always thinking about the generations of black women who came before me, who faced racism and sexism head-on, and in spite of it all, did their work. They encourage me not to despair." For Vogue, author Brit Bennett writes about 2017, racism, Trump, and the forward progression of time. Pair with: staff writer Ismail Muhammad's interview with Bennett.
Retrofitted
Ever wondered exactly what “mod” is? A new book by Richard Weight (reviewed in The Guardian yesterday) sets out to answer that question.