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“#Author canceled after defending classics, ‘attacking’ educator<\/strong>”
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A critically acclaimed young adult author has been \u201ccanceled\u201d and dropped by her agent after vociferously defending classic books in a Twitter<\/a>-fueled rage.<\/p>\n

Jessica Cluess, the author of the popular \u201cKingdom of Fire<\/a>\u201d series<\/a> (among others) picked a fight with an anti-racist and anti-bias educator Lorena Germ\u00e1n<\/a> who founded the #DisruptTexts<\/a> movement which aims to get more works by people of color into schools and to look critically at works by famous white \u201cclassic\u201d authors.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid y\u2019all know that many of the \u2018classics\u2019 were written before the 50s? Think of US society before then & the values that shaped this nation afterwards. THAT is what is in those books. That is why we gotta switch it up. It ain\u2019t just about \u2018being old,\u201d\u2018 Germ\u00e1n tweeted on her now-private account on Nov. 30.<\/p>\n

The tweet triggered Cluess, who then sent out a volley of now-deleted tweets (which were captured by the Daily Mail<\/a>) including one which called Germ\u00e1n an \u201cidiot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series of Cluess tweets read:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think Hawthorne was on the side of the judgmental Puritans in The Scarlet Letter then you are an absolute idiot and should not have the title of educator in your bio.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think Upton Sinclair was on the side of the meat packing industry then you are a fool and should sit down and feel bad about yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAh yes, remember Their Eyes Were Watching God, and other literature of the extraordinary Harlem Renaissance? I guess not. D\u2013k. This anti-intellectual, anti-curiosity bulls\u2013t is poison and I will stand here and scream that it is sheer godd**n evil until my hair falls out. I do not care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germ\u00e1n saw Cluess\u2019 tweets and quickly responded saying:<\/p>\n

\u2018What\u2019s interesting to me is how I present a position on an academic point, and yet this 55%er decides to attack me personally over and over again. Sounds like I struck a confederate nerve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon a Twitter mob got on board and called Cluess a racist and demanded her publisher Penguin\/Random House drop her, prompting the author to delete her tweets and issue an apology<\/a> saying: \u201cI take full responsibility for my unproved anger against Lorena\u00a0Germ\u00e1n and the impact of my words on her and all who read them\u2026 I want to acknowledge the pain I caused, and to apologize sincerely for it. My words were misguided, wrong, and deeply hurtful.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there has been no word from Penguin\/Random House, two days later on Dec. 3, Cluess\u2019 agent at the renowned Janklow & Nesbit literary agency, Brooks Sherman, dropped her as a client.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hold myself to certain personal and professional standards for the values I support. I no longer represent Jessica Cluess. Her tweets against Loren Germ\u00e1n earlier this week were racist and unacceptable,\u201d Brooks wrote in a tweet. He has since deactivated his account.\n <\/p><\/div>\n