Literary Gender War……continued

The literary gender war started with best selling writer Jennifer Weiner’s statement that the New York Times does not do a very good job covering women writers.

After a tsunami of indignation swelled across the Internet, Slate.com confirmed the problem: of the 545 books reviewed between July 2008 and August, 2010, 62 percent were by men, 38 percent were by women…and of the 101 books that were reviewed twice in that time period, 71 percent were by men.

Author Teddy Wayne added to the furor with his argument that women writers have it easier than men because of women’s book clubs.

Now Roxane Gay says that Wayne is “very, very wrong to suggest that women have it better in publishing.”  Why?

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