Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert’s decision to delay publication of a forthcoming novel—after it got hundreds of one-star reviews because it is set in Russia—has unleashed a backlash in the publishing world.
sold millions of copies, announced the publication of her eighth book—about a family of religious fundamentalists living in 20th century Siberia—with much fanfare last week.will not come in February as planned, due to an “enormous, massive outpouring of reactions and responses from my Ukrainian readers.”
“Ukrainians have suffered immeasurably, and Gilbert’s decision in the face of online outcry from her Ukrainian readers is well-intended,” CEO Suzanne Nossel said in a statement. “But the idea that, in wartime, creativity and artistic expression should be preemptively shut down to avoid somehow compounding harms caused by military aggression is wrongheaded.”
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