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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Why can't a woman write the great American novel?


Every few years, someone counts up the titles covered in the New York Times Book Review and the short fiction published in the New Yorker, as well as the bylines and literary works reviewed in such highbrow journals as Harper's and the New York Review of Books, and observes that the male names outnumber the female by about 2 to 1. Elaine Showalter, "A Jury of Her Peers"

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