The Crosscut Union sent this letter today to the management of Cascade Public Media. We wrote to express support for our former managing editor, Florangela Davila, and express concern about the manner of her sudden dismissal. https://t.co/1TfurYXAsa pic.twitter.com/rZpGZNKJb0

— Crosscut Union (@Crosscut_Union) August 12, 2019

Many protesters were arrested at an Amazon Bookstore in New York City over the weekend. They were, according to one protester, there to "demand...that [Amazon] end its collaboration with ICE." I haven't caught wind of a Seattle protest at an Amazon store yet, but it sure seems like that kind of protest would get a whole lot of attention here in Amazon's home town, wouldn't it?

In this New York Times profile, J.D. Salinger's son Matt — who until now was famous for playing Captain America in a terrible 1990 movie that was never released in theaters — has some insight into his father's literary legacy. Is Salinger still relevant? Will ebooks and posthumous releases ensure that kids will still read The Catcher in the Rye fifty years from now? I'm not so sure. Salinger spoke to a generation, but his legacy has been tarnished in the post-MeToo climate, and I'm not convinced his books will survive the next round of critical reappraisals — assuming critical reappraisals are still going to happen in the future, of course.

While he rarely gives interviews, Mr. Salinger has opened up more about his father recently. He felt compelled, he said, to counter the claims in a 2013 documentary and a tie-in book by David Shields and Shane Salerno, which caused a stir with the revelation that Salinger had left behind five unpublished works, along with instructions to publish them between 2015 and 2020. “So much in that book and that movie were utter fiction, and bad fiction,” said Mr. Salinger, who noted that his father “encouraged us to take our time” and didn’t give a timeline for publication.