Read “The Way We Speak Now” by Angi Becker Stevens. Also, further to my last: HarperCollins, OverDrive Respond as 26 Loan Cap on Ebook Debate Heats Up.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
…this model can be incredibly damaging to the relationship (and continued success) that authors currently enjoy. One of the biggest advantages libraries offer writers is the ability to facilite discovery of a a [sic] their entire body of work. – The Publisher That Kicked the Hornet’s Nest on HarperCollins putting a 26 loan cap on [...]
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Michael Washburn’s honest and thoughtful How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?: The Vida Study.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
When I invited a woman to come on the show as an expert guest, it was not unusual for her to decline. She’d tell me that she wasn’t really qualified, and then she’d recommend someone “better”–often a male colleague. In the seven years that I worked in talk radio, guess how many men who I [...]
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Because there are men whose lives I’ve avidly followed—out of admiration for their work or their “way.” Paolo Pasolini always comes to mind. I love his work, his films, his poetry, his writings on film and literature, his life, all of it, even his death. How did he do it—make such amazing work and stand [...]
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Following VIDA’s publication of The Count 2010, I (and loads of others) have been discussing gender parity in publishing. I’ve finally finished crunching the numbers for my twitterzine, Seven by Twenty, and here they are below. You’ve already seen the publication breakdown and below that are the other numbers I came up with. At the [...]
Submitting Work: A Woman’s Problem? by Becky Tuch is an interesting take on this whole issue, and well worth reading. There’s also a comment from Jeanne Leiby, editor of The Southern Review, saying in part, “In my eleven issues, we’ve published 40% women, 60% men. Our slushpile contains 40% women and 60% men.” They’re going [...]
Further to my last post and the lack of data to determine what’s going on there, I wondered how Seven by Twenty fares in terms of gender parity. I don’t believe I’m particularly biased (although of course I’m a product of my culture and some biases are inherent there) and I don’t think I pay [...]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
The Count 2010 counts female and male authorship in various influential publications (via Jenniey Tallman‘s Facebook feed). These numbers are pretty depressing – just as a sample, London Review of Books reviewed 68 female authors to 195 male authors in 2010; Tin House published 73 women to 226 men; only Poetry crept over the 50% [...]
Instead of posting here and doing other things I’d also like to be doing (like writing, or playing fetch with the dog) I’ve been doing three things: working (we’re down a staffer at work so I’m putting in a lot of overtime to make up for it), playing Words With Friends (if you’d like to [...]
