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>Publishers cower in fear of ambush by woke critics

>"The problem, according to the writer Alex Perez, is that the US publishing industry is largely run by “white women from a certain background”. In an interview with Hobart magazine, which itself caused a scandal, he said that these “Brooklyn ladies” all wanted “the same kind of books: ‘I’m interested in BIPOC [black, indigenous and people of colour] voices and marginalised communities and white men are evil and all brown people are lovely and beautiful and America is awful and I voted for Hillary [Clinton] and shoved my head into a tote bag and cried cried cried when she lost.’"

>"Alberto Gullaba Jr, whose first novel, University Thugs, featured a young black man with a criminal conviction making his way at an elite university gripped by campus controversies over race, said his manuscript had initially caused great excitement and a small list of “things to fix”. Then he realised the agent, who had never met him, was labouring under a misapprehension. “I said, ‘Hey, no, man, I’m not black, I’m Filipino’, ” Gullaba said, to which they replied: “Oh.”"

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/publishers-cower-in-fear-of-ambush-by-woke-critics-l20s9vcv9

Who are these so-called "Brooklyn ladies" and why do they have so much control over what is published in the US?