Adam Szetela

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Adam Szetela is the author of That Book Is Dangerous! How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing and A Conspiracy of Laughter: How Ivy League Elites Got to Dictate What's Funny.

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How to Suppress Men’s Writing

Adam Szetela 23 Oct 2026 · 17 min read

Man in glasses typing at a desk with a typewriter and scattered crumpled pages. It says "Death of the White, Male Writer."

How “Sensitivity Readers” Made Modern Fiction Boring

Adam Szetela 26 Nov 2025 · 14 min read

Making Fiction Boring

Adam Szetela 22 Oct 2025 · 14 min read

Adam Szetela is a young white man. Background of burning book and the cover of his new book

How Cancel Culture and Sensitivity Readers Are Shaping the Publishing Industry and Silencing Dissent | Quillette Cetera Ep. 51

Zoe Sankey, Adam Szetela 22 Aug 2025 · 27 min read

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