rolling on Twitter when she groused, "Would love to see the NYT rave about authors who aren't white male literary darlings." The tweet followed two reviews of "Freedom" within a week in the Times.Ms. [Jennifer] Weiner followed up:
"I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's . . . something unworthy of a serious critic's attention."
from Bob Hoover: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Gender imbalance in books won't die
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