In a piece about the recent controversy over an Anne Frank reference in Elin Hilderbrand’s Golden Girls, Slate notes that romance author Casey McQuiston was at the center of a similar situation this week, and laments that, “The silly idea that a fictional character’s statements reflect an author’s actual beliefs is spreading.” On June 6, a Twitter user complained about a line spoken by the fictional president of the US in McQuiston’s Red, White, & Royal Blue reading, “Well, my UN ambassador f—ed up his one job and said something idiotic about Israel, and now I have to call Netanyahu […]
