On editing Roald Dahl, and what I’d want for my own books decades from now

I scrolled into an interesting article/headline the other day: Big-Five publisher Puffin is implementing “extensive changes” across legendary author Roald Dahl’s catalog of children’s books. Some strike me more as modernization — replacing masculine plural nouns with gender-neutral ones — while others explicitly aim to remove offensive language.

This is a thought-provoking issue for me as an author. It’s also one I expect to be seized upon by both political poles. Regardless of where you stan...