Milo Yiannopoulos gets $250,000 book deal

Milo Yiannopoulos.
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Alt-right personality and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has received a $250,000 book deal with the Simon & Schuster imprint Threshold Editions, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter twice this year, first temporarily following an anti-Islam tweet stemming from the Pulse nightclub shooting and later permanently after harassing Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones. "They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off. Just as I predicted, the opposite has happened," Yiannopoulos told THR. He added: "Every line of attack the forces of political correctness try on me fails pathetically. I'm more powerful, more influential, and more fabulous than ever before and this book is the moment Milo goes mainstream. Social justice warriors should be scared — very scared."

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Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.