MacKenzie Scott is notoriously generous and notoriously quiet. The billionaire philanthropist, novelist, and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has doled out more than $26 billion to charity during the past few years, but has done so without much fanfare.
Now Scott is going back to her writing roots—she was trained under the acclaimed writer Toni Morrison, after all—and is releasing her new novel, Last Days in Two Nations, chapter by chapter on Substack. Noticeably, she’s opted to publish it on an open platform, and not through a publishing house or distributed by a major bookseller like, say, Amazon.
