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Linking with the permission of leahbobet -- please note that the site eventually took this article down, and also please respect Leah's wishes that we not turn this into a 'shitstorm' but:
Leah was asked for an author interview-by-questionnaire for a column called "The Rack." She was told it was "kind of brutal," but the questions seemed normal so she answered. Turns out the "interview" format is to portray the author's answers as information obtained by torture.
Let's just think about that for a bit.
As she puts it in a later comment:
The interviewer explained to me that he wants to counteract the kind of interview which fawns over the author, or is "overly respectful". I can see where that motive comes in; but I think the execution has overstepped into being disrespectful to the person who the author also is.
I repeat that she wants to take the high road here, and anyway I don't want to give the site any more google hits, so no dogpiling. I just wanted to let people know that this has been going on.
Leah was asked for an author interview-by-questionnaire for a column called "The Rack." She was told it was "kind of brutal," but the questions seemed normal so she answered. Turns out the "interview" format is to portray the author's answers as information obtained by torture.
Let's just think about that for a bit.
As she puts it in a later comment:
The interviewer explained to me that he wants to counteract the kind of interview which fawns over the author, or is "overly respectful". I can see where that motive comes in; but I think the execution has overstepped into being disrespectful to the person who the author also is.
I repeat that she wants to take the high road here, and anyway I don't want to give the site any more google hits, so no dogpiling. I just wanted to let people know that this has been going on.
