Roxane Gay chooses principles over sales

By Andrew Purcell
Updated May 17 2017 - 9:48am, first published May 11 2017 - 10:37am

Roxane Gay caused a stir when she pulled her latest book, How to Be Heard, from Simon & Schuster, saying she could not in good conscience share a publisher with white nationalist provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. "I can afford to take this stand. Not everyone can. Remember that," she tweeted.

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