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MONICA HOLLOWAY Makes 2009 WILLA List with COWBOY & WILLS http://bit.ly/3fT9PT 6 days ago |
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Controversy w/ women missing from best books lists. Via Early Word http://bit.ly/1SuZkV Add your fav women to a wiki at http://bit.ly/yrr5R 10 days ago |
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RT @tammywjones: RT @EileenPaulin: Great Books by Women that Publisher's Wkly overlooked in 09 compliments of @mediabistro http://ow.ly/zii0 10 days ago |
WILLA Objects to Literary List
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat —
... , including authors, journalists, and scholars. In response to the rankings, WILLA has created a wiki-list: "Great Books By Women That Publishers Weekly Missed In 2009." The growing site is already full of suggestions--what do you think? ...
Fury after women writers excluded from 'books of the year'
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk —
... 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. ...
The Blurb #12: On Disturbance
The Rumpus.net —
... , co-founded by poets Erin Belieu and Cate Marvin. And after a lengthy discussion about the market, the tedium, the predictability, we evenly, with no kicking nor screaming, decided to generate a list of books by women writers, published in 2009, which were possibly ignored by PW. We list a range of books. We don’t agree on them all. We’re not ranking them. We’re not calling anything the best. We’re open to additions. It’s a growing list. It’s a reminder. And if PW’s Best 10 is an annual thing, we hope they, too, will be a bit more inclusive. It could result in ...
pages turned — Has everyone seen the WILLA List Wiki?
The Drawbacks of Diversity in Book Lists
BookFox —
... The problem would be if every list actively ignored a group
of people. Then that would be an absolute lack of diversity. But in the age of
the internet, where we’ll see hundreds—no, thousands—of Best Books of 2009
lists, I’m confident that across this spectrum we’ll have plenty of diversity. For instance, check out the wiki that lists the best female-authored books of 2009. If one list of one publication lacks perceived diversity in one
category, stop complaining. Just find another list. ...
Best of 2009 list excludes women writers
Brown Paper —
... Register your approval/howl of outrage at the WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) website. You can also add your picks to their list of favorite books by women in 2009. ...
Women Missing from Best Books Lists
EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection —
... amusingly titled, Why Were No Women Invited to Publishers Weekly’s Weenie Roast? and created a wiki for people to post their favorite ‘09 books by women, which is growing by the minute. ...
Silliman's Blog — ... 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?!? “Great Books by Women Writers in 2009” includes 63 books poetry!! ...
"Best" Books of 2009
The Lipstick Chronicles —
... And an organization called Women in Letters and Literary Arts is doing the best work, perhaps, by compiling a list of great books of 2009 that have been written by women. Check it out here. Add your suggestions there, too. ...
second sex takes second place? -- Abigail Deutsch
Harriet: The Blog —
... In response, Women in Letters and Literary Arts started a list of their own. The purpose is “to note great books by women that Publishers Weekly missed in their all-male top ten ‘Best Books of 2009.’” Given that Marilynne Robinson, Alice Munro, and other stars published books this year, the task shouldn’t be too onerous. As of today, the WILLA list features so many books that this blogger felt dizzy at the prospect of counting them. ...
Books Men Want
MOBYLIVES —
... This makes last week’s flap over Publishers Weekly’s list of the best books of 2009 even stranger. If PW’s list had consisted entirely of books written by women, as could easily have been the case — see this list, for example — is it possible that no man would have protested? ...
