I just couldn’t bring myself to turn the book in. I was supposed to turn the book in this month and I kept thinking about how egregious it is to give someone like Milo a platform for his blunt, inelegant hate and provocation.
Then I remembered my TED Book and that TED is an imprint of Simon & Schuster. When the announcement about Milo’s book first came out, I was relieved because I thought I didn’t have a book with Simon & Schuster and tweeted something to that effect. Gay told Buzzfeed News that she 'can’t in good conscience' continue with the publication of the book. Bestselling author Roxane Gay will not publish her forthcoming book, How to be Heard, with publisher Simon & Schuster imprint TED Books because of a $250,000 book deal offered to Alt-Right leader Milo Yiannopoulous, she said.
