  Less is Moore urlLink The Bookseller column of this week's Guardian Review contains an entry on our friends at urlLink Soft Skull Press today: "A small US publisher, Soft Skull Press, is relishing the publicity after HarperCollins demanded that it change the title of one of its books.
How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office, a collection of essays edited by William Upski Wimsatt, might be confused with Michael Moore's bestseller Stupid White Men, HC alleged; "Accordingly, we demand that you eliminate the phrase Stupid White Men from the title of Mr Wimsatt's book prior to publication. " HC now says that the issue is settled. It's too late: Soft Skull saw an opportunity to get coverage, and it has not been disappointed.
The US press has enjoyed the story particularly because HC and Moore (who is published in the UK by Penguin) fell out when the company put publication of Stupid White Men on hold following September 11. Moore's comment on the current controversy is: "It is kind of strange that a publisher that first tried to squash my book is now trying to defend their economic interest now that it is a bestseller. "" 
