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Stuck in the middle with you

Editor's LetterDec 8, 2023by Philip Jones
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Bari Weiss, founder and editor, The Free Press
Publishing would do well to push back on last week’s "hit piece" in the national papers that claimed “woke books” bought in the wake of George Floyd’s death had flopped.

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Philip is editor of The Bookseller, a position he took up in August 2012. Before that he was deputy editor, having first joined the magazine in 1996. He was its web editor for 10 years, having helped launch thebookseller.com in 1998. He is a regular commentator on book trade matters on radio, TV and in the broadsheet newspapers.

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