i am not one to complain about a book or podcast being “too political.” (in fact, i never have complained about it). but this one was too much. i loved the insight into book selling, talking about how independent books work, how they choose books to uplift in efforts to right the male, white skew in publishing today. i appreciated the essays on hand selling, genre, and destiny. but the straight hatred of the right was too much for me. and i don’t even fall into the right camp. i don’t mind when an author writes what they believe politically and why. i do mind when they call the other side names without much to back it up. it felt like he was assuming that every reader of this books agreed with him completely. that he was right completely. it was strange: the unequivocal hate he demonstrated while also writing beautiful phrases about understanding people’s preferences.