A boost for Milo Yiannopoulos’s book Dangerous (not that it necessarily needs one since it’s number four in Amazon’s Bestseller chart, over a month before publication).
Other authors published by CBS-owned Simon & Schuster—whose Threshold Editions is publishing Dangerous—have registered their disapproval of a book by the attention-seeking alt-right provocateur and Breitbart Tech Editor.
The backlash culminated in feminist author Roxane Gay recently pulling out of a book deal with Simon & Schuster to protest the association with Yiannopoulos.
However Cat Marnell, the self-proclaimed bulimic and drug addict beauty editor, whose memoir How to Murder Your Life has just been published by Simon & Schuster, has sprung to Yiannopoulos’ defense and his right to be published.
“Milo likes being polarizing like Kanye or Kim Kardashian—in fact he’s the neocon Kardashian!” she tells Heat Street.
“I’m all about free speech, support for first amendment and unfortunately that extends to racism and offensive things which is disgusting but if it’s not in the dialogue then it’s a secret and we can’t talk about it.”
Marnell said she had come across Yiannopoulos via their mutual friend Gavin McInnes, the Vice Founder and Canadian shock jock, and made clear she wouldn’t necessarily want him in the house (or drug den).
She said: “I think he’s very funny but I didn’t realize until recently that he was also saying all those racist things. I think any kind of racism you have to stand against so I can can never stand up for him which is a shame because I think he’s very charming and very funny.
“There’s something punk rock about him but there’s the Nazi stuff too. For better or worse he’s on a wave—a bad wave!”
“That being said, I’m a drug addict and I need my money so have kept the contract with Simon & Schuster. But in fairness my book was going to be published before all that happened.”
Marnell, whose tale of debauchery has received good reviews, added: “I believe in karma. Milo might be getting attention now but if you put alot of negative energy out in the universe, it comes around for you. He’ll see it and realize he shouldn’t have said all those horrible things about other people.”
She said she would not buy Yiannopoulos’s book but “if I get one for free from Simon & Schuster, I’ll read it.”
