There’s some talk over my decision last week to part ways with D.G. Myers, who has contributed monthly articles on fiction to the magazine and authored a blog, Literary Commentary, on this site. I would ordinarily not discuss such things; the relations of editors to writers are a private matter between them. But David has now chosen to discuss them. (He calls what happened to him a “firing,” which it was not; he was not and never has been an employee of COMMENTARY; he was paid as a freelancer.)
I understand his anger and hurt and I sympathize with those emotions more than I expect he knows or can believe at this moment. But since he is expressing them in a manner that is unjust to this institution and unfair to me—since he is suggesting I acted to censor his views on gay marriage, which is nothing more nor less than an abominable lie—I feel obliged to respond.
