This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Friday, May 5th, 2023. I'm Caleb Brown.

Sensitivity readers, perhaps not content with softening language in new books against the potential for

readers to take offense have now turned the retention to old books from Ian Fleming to

rolled Dahl and now PG Woodhouse. Publishing houses are working to soften

course and sometimes quite offensive words from often quite old books. National Review columnist Christian Schneider. Well, he doesn't care for it.

We spoke last month. They came for Agatha Christie.

Rolled Dahl. Ian Fleming. Rold Dahl, E.

Ian Fleming, and now PG Woodhouse, or as I like to call him now, NC 17

Woodhouse.

That is. NC17 Woodhouse. That deserved a bigger laugh, but I'm going to let you get by on that.

But what is the, what's the throughline for all of these authors? Is there anything other than

their Brits? In terms of content there really isn't a whole a whole lot of

throughline and that is what makes the

editing of PG Woodhouse so objectionable because he is so different than the others in that he's the lightest prose

Imaginable. I think he did he wrote 90 books

They're maybe going after two or three of them that maybe had, you know, well they did have

words that we don't use now. But you know he's for those who don't know who PG

Woodhouse is he's probably the

probably the greatest humorist of the of the 20th century.

Guys like Christopher Hitchins who have said he's the gold standard of British wit.

And, you know, his stories are just so light and they have, you know, just beautiful prose. If there's's any if there's any writer that took care

in the you the words that he was using and what he was saying it was it was PG

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