The Origins of the Book Shagits

The book is a series of essays that I published in other places. The phrase people have dead Jews was something I had published in a piece that I wrote, which now is the chapter one of the book. When did you pick out the title and did you get any pushback from the publisher? Yes. No, there are always titles that like on the chopping, you know, on the editing floor,. He has a book that also has like this, like longer jarring title, all who go do not return. And he said his publisher wanted him to call the book shagits. You know, it's juicier. It's more controversial, transgressive.

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