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politicsdaily.com - 15 days ago
Same Old Story: Best-Books Lists Snub Women Writers -
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A few weeks ago, two book critics held a hushed conversation via cell phone under cover of darkness. "They better not do it again," one hissed. "I know," the other sputtered. "If it happens, I will just --" "I know!" said the other. "SCREAM," the first finished. "I WILL SCREAM." The ...

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Jury, Meet Peers
The Mumpsimus — Lizzie Skurnick: "I just want to say," I said as the meeting closed, "that we have sat here and consistently called books by women small and books by men large, by no quantifiable metric, and we are giving awards to books I think are actually kind of amateur and sloppy compared to others, and I think it's disgusting." (I wasn't built for the board room.) "But we can't be doing it because we're sexist," an estimable colleague replied huffily. "After all, we're both men and women here." But that's the problem with sexism. It doesn't happen because ...

November 9, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Priest (podcast). Off the Hook interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast). Odyssey Workshop interviews Gregory Frost. Missions Unknown interviews Jason Limon. Shareable interviews Kim Stanley Robinson. (via Locus Magazine) Tor.Com interviews Professor Kelly Joyce (Part 2). Storytellers Unplugged Q&A with Sarah Monette. Advice/Articles Politics Daily on Same Old Story: Best-Books Lists Snub Women Writers. Related: Matthew Cheney on ...

Top 10 Books of 2009 (Girls Need Not Apply)
Jim C. Hines — ... I would also check out Lizzie Skurnick’s response at Politics Daily, which included this bit from PW: “We wanted the list to reflect what we thought were the top 10 books of the year with no other consideration . . . We ignored gender and genre and who had the buzz . . . It disturbed us when we were done that our list was all male.” ...

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