If you discovered that the writer of a book you live an frequently re read....

[BertrandRussell]

....had been posthumously but credibly accused of serious sexual assault agaist children, would you bin the book?
I didn’t give my children two of my favourite childhood authors because of subsequent revelations. But wondering what people would do about this. To make it worse, it’s a book I have given and recommended to many “baby” feminists because it presents many of the issues in an easy to digest fictional form.

oh gosh, what's Mieville done?

Perhaps if we found it easier to hold in our heads the idea that a person can do absolutely atrocious things and still produce work of merit, then some instances of abuse would be less easily overlooked.

Well said.

I wouldn't bin a book because its author said or did evil things, though I might see the book in a different light. Getting rid of books sits ill with me.

Jesus, the poems her daughter wrote are heartbreaking.

Hmm. Sort of. Although I don't think this about the Alice in Wonderland stories, which is the same issue.

Alice isn’t the same issue is it? Carroll wasn’t a child abuser....

well it was only a matter of time....I wondered how I'd feel about this and today's allegations about Ryan Adams have put me square in this position.

also very puzzled that media are reporting the emotional abuse and the accusations of exposing himself to an underage fan as if they're kind of the same thing....anyway, yes, years of fandom, where does it go? I have one friend who argues if I knew about the personal lives of anyone whose work I admire, I'd never be able to read/watch/listen to anything again.

but some of his lyrics are kind of...part of my brain. Now I'm like, do I never listen to him again?

What about Mieville?

What she did to her daughter and others was horrific.

That article is a roller coaster. I was confused about the name of the website until towards the end.