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No. 1 Omission From Top 10 Book List: Women
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com - 15 days ago
No. 1 Omission From Top 10 Book List: Women
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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, ...

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Chasing Ray — ... Dave Itzkoff on the "No. 1 Omission from Top Ten Book List". Yep, it's where in the world are the women (and oh the irony that the NYT would be asking). I do have to confess that while I'm finding Shop Class as Soul Craft interesting reading, I'm perplexed as to how it's a top ten of the year. (He's no Tracy Kidder, that's for sure.) (Sometimes I feel like I'm reading a graduate thesis.) Hat tip to @Gwenda ...

SF Tidbits for 11/6/09
SF Signal — Interviews/Profiles The Agony Column interviews Kim Stanley Robinson (podcast). David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (podcast) (via SFWA) Jonathan Moeller interviews Dave Smeds. The Creative Penn interviews Mur Lafferty (podcast). Lark Neville interviews Amy Grech. Fantasy Magazine interviews Garth Nix (video). Tor.com interviews Ray Bradbury (video). John Scalzi profiles Jeff VanderMeer. Fantasy Book Critic interviews Gary A. Ballard.News Guardian Book Club with Terry Pratchett. PS ...

Friday Morning LitLinks
Author Scoop — Michael Shea chats it up with Robert Pinsky. (The Southeast Review) Arifa Akbar speaks out in favor of writers working alone to find their own voices over chasing success through workshops and writing courses. (The Independent) Chris Fox looks at Philip Roth and the perils of being a living legend. (Guardian Books Blog) Erica Marcus talks to Jonathan Safran Foer about his latest book (non-fiction this time), Eating Animals. (Newsday) Could Glenn Beck become the Oprah for thriller writers? (NYTimes) Publishers Weekly gets taken to the woodshed by Dave Itzkoff for choosing only male-penned books for ...

Round-Up
Chasing Ray — ... Dave Itzkoff on the "No. 1 Omission from Top Ten Book List". Yep, it's where in the world are the women (and oh the irony that the NYT would be asking). I do have to confess that while I'm finding Shop Class as Soul Craft interesting reading, I'm perplexed as to how it's a top ten of the year. (He's no Tracy Kidder, that's for sure.) (Sometimes I feel like I'm reading a graduate thesis.) Hat tip to @Gwenda ...

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