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RT @PublishingSpy: Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2009: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704595.html http://ow.ly/163EQf 79 minutes ago |
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Yea. RT @alizasherman @rebeccawalker: PW top 100 books of year. NOT 1 WOMAN? JFC get a grip http://bit.ly/4214eL 4 hours ago |
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RT @rebeccawalker: ditto PW top 100 books of year. NOT 1 WOMAN? JFC people get a grip http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704595.html 5 hours ago |
PW’s Best Books of 2009
1morechapter.com —
... Gubar
Muslims in America: A Short History by Edward E. Curtis IV
Rashi by Elie Wiesel
Lifestyle
Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy by Lidia Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali
Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan
Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller
Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone by Penelope Leach Gourmet Today by Ruth Reichl
Source: Publishers Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704595.html
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PW’s Top 100 of 2009
1morechapter.com —
... Thought for Food edited by Richard Hamilton and Vincente Todolo
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy
Source: Publisher’s Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704595.html
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Dueling Top Tens
EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection —
... in their Top 100 Editors Picks countdown, close on the heels of PW’s Top Ten released last week. How do the two Top Ten lists compare? Unlike PW , Amazon manages to include books by women in their top ten. At #3 is this year’s Booker winner, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. At #5 is the forthcoming YA novel, Beautiful Creatures , which raises the count, since it is actually by two women, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (on Amazon, you can find a video of the ...
Happy Monday Indeed!
Pub Rants —
... wonderful my colleague Sara Megibow is? Well, I’m giddy to report that the baby boy arrived yesterday at 3:25 p.m. on Sunday, November 1, 2009. Baby Trey is healthy. Sara is doing great. And the new parents are ecstatic and exhausted. Everything is as it should be! And if that weren’t news enough, this morning I read about Publishers Weekly choosing SOULLESS as one of their top 100 books for 2009. ...
Best 100 Books of 2009
Isak —
... last week, Publisher's Weekly today announces its favorite one hundred titles published in 2009. (The poor chaps with November and December publication dates are, apparently, shit out of luck, as they surely won't qualify for the 2010 list either.) Beyond ...
Best Books of 2009 Lists!
Steph Su Reads —
... And here's Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2009, featuring many adult titles that I have on my TBR shelf. The books on that list that I'm determined to get through during winter break include: The Lost City of Z by David Grann, Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, Soulless by Gail Carriger, Columbine by Dave Cullen, and a Jon Krakauer book. ...
WILLA Objects to Literary List
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat —
... This month, Publishers Weekly unveiled a series of Best Books of 2009 lists, and the "Top Ten" list did not include any books by women authors. ...
Fury after women writers excluded from 'books of the year'
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk —
... know they're being blatantly sexist, but it looks like they feel good about that," said Belieu. "I, on the other hand, have heard from a whole lot of people - writers and readers - who don't feel good about it at all." WILLA has now launched a wiki list of "great books published by women in 2009", which already includes AS Byatt's The Children's Book, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck and Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry. Publishers Weekly's top 10 books of 2009 ...
The Blurb #12: On Disturbance
The Rumpus.net —
... I went to the Publishers Weekly website so I could forward the link to our other colleagues, but I couldn’t at first find their Best 100 list and found, instead, their Best 10 list (a new PW feature)—and then I was depressed, because the Best 10 list was comprised entirely of books written by men. ...
No. 1 Omission From Top 10 Book List: Women
NYT > Books —
The trade publication Publishers Weekly likely wanted to provoke discussion with its annual list of the year’s best books, but not like this. In its issue of Nov. 2, Publishers Weekly compiled its PW Top 10 , a decidedly subjective ranking of the best fiction and non-fiction published in 2009, including the biography “Cheever: A Life” by Blake Bailey; the novel “Await Your Reply” by Dan Chaon; and the graphic novel “Stitches” by David Small. But as ...
Publishers Weekly Top Ten Debate Continues
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat —
... When Publishers Weekly released a series of Best Books of 2009 lists this week, the "Top Ten" list did not include any books by women authors. GalleyCat ...
Best of lists take a beating – but what about critical honesty?
Quill & Quire —
On Salon.com, Laura Miller talks about the controversy over PW’s best ten books of 2009 being 100% male:
What’s at issue isn’t sales or even access to readers; this is an argument about prestige and critical recognition, an argument best articulated by the novelist and critic Francine Prose in a 1998 article for Harper’s magazine. Prose detected a greater reverence for books by men among the nation’s literary and critical establishment, which includes reviewers, prize committees and the institutions that bestow ...
Jury, Meet Peers
The Mumpsimus —
... The good people at Publisher's Weekly are probably speaking what they think is the truth when they say, about their all-male list of 10 "best" books of the year, that "We ignored gender and genre and who had the buzz." I believe them when they say, "It disturbed us when we were done that our list was all male." ...
Best of 2009 list excludes women writers
Brown Paper —
... Publishers Weekly, that venerable (and some say dated) institution has compiled its best books of 2009 list, and the top ten authors are all men. Interesting, given that the Booker and the Pulitzer (fiction) prizes both went to women this year. ...
PW's Best YA/YR of 2009
Dare to Be Stupid —
... it before now!) I think all of these titles are going to be around for a long time--all are unusual, all have meanings that will occur to the reader long after s/he puts them down, and all of them will haunt you until you find yourself re-reading them in college and beyond. I didn't include the younger readers' list or the nonfiction list: here's the link to those. And if you want the link to the much more controversial adult list (no women writers on it!), here is that link as well. This is why I prefer kidlit.
The End of the Top 10?
The Wooden Spoon —
... , Anna North considers a good question: is it time to stop the Top Book Lists, such as the recent Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of 2009? As has been noticed in such outlets as The New York Times, there is not a single female author on the list, raising questions about long-held critical biases against women's fiction. ...
Smugglers’ Stash & News
The Book Smugglers —
... Does anyone else find this hilarious? Who are they trying to selling volvos to? Are little girls really gonna throw their weight around to get their parents to buy a family volvo SUV because that’s what Edward wants? Are there any moms and dads out there looking at this commercial and thinking, ‘Eureka, that’s what I need to be cool! I mean, EDWARD drives one! I must have one too!’
In other news, you may have seen that Publisher’s Weekly and Amazon have released their best books of 2009 lists. Though I’m stoked that ...
In which I am sidetracked from offering a sophisticated critique
The Little Professor —
... of Publisher's Weekly's all-male, all-the-time Top Ten of 2009 list, I clicked over to PW's site...and discovered that they identified Dan Simmons' Drood as one of the best works of fiction from 2009. I'd splutter, ...
Repressive Anti-Sentimentalism: Best [Male] Writers of 2009
The Valve —
... isn’t valid or useful in some important sense, but it means that I regard the pretense of objectivity that judges so often assume as they attempt to justify their choices as delusory at best and disingenuous at worst. If you disagree with that sentiment, then I bet you will disagree with what follows. But I think you will do so because of where you place value, because of how you subjectively define objective truth. Publisher’s Weekly, it seems, has produced an all male Best of 2009 list, which they introduce as follows: “From more than 50,000 volumes, we valiantly set ...
Silliman's Blog — ... Natural Index of Supernatural Collective Nouns § Ann Lauterbach: 2 poems § Talking with 109 authors (rob mclennan’s 12 or 20 questions, second series) § Publishers Weekly very male “top ten” list The list in question Oh yeah?!? ...
second sex takes second place? -- Abigail Deutsch
Harriet: The Blog —
... , men beat out women four to one in the prestigious, and historically male-skewed, Whiting Awards for emerging writers. Second, in a move that attracted much more attention than the Whiting wrong, Publishers Weekly compiled a boys-only top 10 books list of the year. The extended list of 100 best books featured 29 female writers. ...
Website Launches "She Writes Day of Action"
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat —
... When Publishers Weekly released a series of Best Books of 2009 lists this week, the "Top Ten" list did not include any books by women authors. GalleyCat ...
Women’s News
The Rumpus.net —
... In response to Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Best Books of 2009 list that mistakenly included no women (see: PW’s Top 10 list is dumb), Wicoff sent an e-mail to all 5,000 remembers. She was a teensy upset. ...
Sunday Salon - 15 November 2009
MYSTERIES in PARADISE —
... (on Kindle)- THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST, Stieg Larsson next- TOO CLOSE TO HOME by Linwood Barclay audio (in the car) - WATER LIKE A STONE, Deborah Crombie on line - THE DOG WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, Alexander McCall Smith chapt 42 Headlines & News: Hercule Poirot steps out from behind the Curtain in new Strand Magazine short story Crime Beat grills Michael Robotham Publisher's Weekly best books for 2009 Book Review Blog Carnival #30 Philip Roth ...
Attention Span ‘09
A Compulsive Reader —
... Tough to argue against setting aside time to read any of the above. I enjoyed all of them thoroughly. The rest of the list is going to give me ample material to pursue for the next few months. The sheer size of the list is pretty overwhelming–it would be an accomplishment to read every book on the list and nothing else over the course of a year. A good and thorough start to the end-of-the-year-best-of lists. And none of the controversy of the publisher’s weekly best of list.
Posted in Poetry, Publishing Tagged: Andrew Zawacki, ...
Ain't I a Author?
Red Room - Where the Writers Are —
... profiled and not one of them were African-American. Why is that? I know for a fact that Terry Mcmillan and Eric Jerome Dickey publish with imprints under the Penguin Group umbrella, but they and others were noticeably absent from the list. What message are they sending readers? Is the message once again that AFAM writer's are not as important as their white counterparts? That we are second or even third class writers entitled only a marginal portion of the book loving population? Publisher's Weekl y released its Best Books of 2009 list and correct me if I am wrong about this - ...
Eyes on the Prize?
MOBYLIVES —
... She then goes on to discuss this in the context of vanity prizes, but I was already thinking of a year-end media tradition much closer to home: the “Best Of” lists. Already they’ve caused quite a ruckus, and not just around our offices and the tens of other publishers that I know are eagerly awaiting these lists. When Publishers Weekly posted their Top 10 of 2009, the list was devoid of any works written by women, and the blogosphere exploded with critique (including ...
A few words about wordy writing women
The 3 R's Blog // Reading, 'Riting, and Randomness —
... If you pay any attention to the book business and the mainstream media, you've heard the uproar about the list of Top Ten Books of 2009 that Publishers Weekly announced a couple of weeks ago. Aside from the fact that it came out with nearly two months left in 2009 - is it like the award-eligibility period for the Grammys, where 2009 also includes the end of 2008? - people noticed pretty quickly that the list didn't include any books by women writers - no novels, no poetry, no genre fiction, no nonfiction of any kind. To ...
