Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Great Regulars: But when we put the names side by side

rather than talking about them individually, we noticed something about the list: there wasn't a single woman on it.

After lengthy brain-racking, the only women we could think of who'd tried their hand at it were Amelie Nothomb in her Goncourt-shortlisted Une forme de vie, and Gertrude Stein, in her smoke and mirror-filled Autobiography of Alice B Toklas. Is auto-fiction (if that's the right term for it) a male-dominated pursuit?

from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Is auto-fiction strictly a boys' game?

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