
The Trials of Cynthia Pelayo
Cynthia Pelayo released Children of Chicago, a crime procedural that follows a homicide detective hunting a Pied-Piperesque child killer, in April to national praise. Two months later the acclaimed horror writer of Santa Muerte and Loteria announced plans to compile an anthology called Cops vs Monsters–and the public had a very different response.The online backlash against Pelayo editing a compendium of (presumably?) pro-police narratives was quick and fierce, and the problem metastasized when a small book publisher entered the Twitter fracas and started railing against content warnings.
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