PEARL-CLUTCHING BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE FRETS OVER SELLING HILLBILLY ELEGY TO CUSTOMERS: “The author of this, Douglas Koziol, doesn’t seem to have actually read Vance’s book.”

What, and risk exposure to the doubleplus ungood crimethink? Or to mix dystopian metaphors, as Ryan Holiday noted in a 2015 New York Observer article titled “The Real Reason We Need to Stop Trying to Protect Everyone’s Feelings,” “In the 50th anniversary edition, Bradbury includes a short afterword where he gives his thoughts on current culture. Almost as if he is speaking directly about the events above, he wrote: ‘There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches.’”