Jeanine Cummins

There’s a saying in marketing that there's no such thing as bad publicity. That expression is about to be put to the ultimate test. Only a few weeks into the New Year and the publishing industry has a major controversy on its hands with the just-released American Dirt (Flatiron Books)…

The president and publisher of Flatiron Books, which published the controversial American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, has issued a statement on the book’s rollout and his company’s “inadequacies” in addressing issues of representation. The statement also announced that the rest of the author’s planned 40-city book tour has been canceled.…