A journalist for WIRED wrote a profile on hugely popular fantasy author Brandon Sanderson. Ordinarily, a profile wouldn't be news. But from the morning the article went up, people have been debating the article. Was it a hatchet job? Was it good journalism? Was it not mean enough?
Here is a link to the article, called
Brandon Sanderson Is Your God. (Yeah, uhm, I wouldn't have picked that title, either.)
Here is a response to the article in LitHub titled
Read the meanest literary profile of the year (so far) … and the subject’s response.
Here is
Brandon Sanderson's response on Reddit. He even quotes Terry Pratchett!
Here is
a response from author Mary Anne Mohanraj.
The profile received a lot of criticism on social media as well,
such as this post by a fellow fantasy author. But it also received praise from people who don't like Brandon Sanderson or who strongly disapprove of him because of his Mormonism and all that entails.
If you want a hodgepodge of varying social media responses, I wrote about it for Medium in
"What’s Up With That WIRED Brandon Sanderson Profile?.