It seems readily apparent that the writer of a book titled Bad Feminist would register significant disagreement — to put it politely — with a writer who has called feminism "bowel cancer."But when Roxane Gay realized she was to be published on the imprint of the same publisher that recently signed Milo Yiannopoulos to a six-figure book deal, she made that disapproval quite clear."I can't in good conscience let them publish it while they also publish Milo," Gay told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday. "So I told my agent over the weekend to pull the project."That project, currently titled How to Be Heard, had been set to publish through TED Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint.Yiannopoulos, a tech editor at Breitbart News, has drawn significant backlash for consistently provocative statements on the conservative website — and for getting banned from Twitter last year. That ban followed his prominent role in the gamergate controversy and a campaign of racist and abusive messages directed at Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones.Yiannopoulos, for his part, has dismissed the criticism as politically motivated and as an attempt to silence dissenting opinions.Late last year, another Simon & Schuster imprint — Threshold Editions, which is geared toward conservative readers — agreed to a book deal with Yiannopoulos worth $250,000, according to multiple media reports.That news didn't sit well with a lot of Simon & Schuster authors. So much so, in fact, that the publisher's president and CEO sent a letter reassuring them that "we do not support or condone, nor will we publish, hate speech."Others in the publishing industry also voiced their distaste with the deal. Dennis Johnson, head of the independent publisher Melville House, explained his reasoning to NPR's Lynn Neary:
