DEI vs. Story, Part 4: How Publishing Lost the Plot: The Silencing of the Straight White Male

<![CDATA[There's a story I keep hearing from male writer friends and acquaintances. They tell me, with variations on the theme: “I found a dozen literary agents right for my book, but when I sent them the manuscript, only six had the courtesy to respond, all with rejections. When I asked what I had done wrong, they said nothing was wrong with the book, but that editors are not considering titles written by straight white males. Then came the question: Do you maybe have Native American ancestry or something?” Considering that in 1970 about 70% of books were written by men, most of them white and probably straight, this is quite a swing.]]>