Not long ago, I had a chance to interview the cyberpunk Bruce Sterling, who’s in the process of giving his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. It was a neat, all-over-the-place conversation–one that’s given me some ideas for future stories–but one thread I can’t let go of is… Continue reading »
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Where the Women Aren’t (Part Two)
I promised I’d have more thoughts on those anger-provoking VIDA stats about how men get published and reviewed more often in literary venues than women do. A lot of the commentary about the situation irritated me in a different way. It’s vital to call attention to the problem. But is hand-wringing and lamentation about how… Continue reading »
Where the Women Aren’t (Part One)
If you follow litchat at all, you’re aware by now that the online literary community VIDA (“Women in Literary Arts”) took a look at the gender breakdown of reviewers and authors featured in top-tier mags and journals in 2010. The numbers aren’t pretty. The Atlantic, the Boston Review, Granta, Harper’s, The New Yorker, the London… Continue reading »
The Way We Read Now
Keeping a promise I made to myself when I was down with pneumonia over the holidays, I have been reading again. On one level, I never stopped reading. I read all the time: newspapers online and off, blogs, scholarly and popular journal articles, tweets, reports, more blogs, more articles. I read books and portions of… Continue reading »
Redesigns for Living
Welcome to 2011. A lot of people I know were happy to see the back of 2010. I know how they feel; I finished the year with what my doc called a “humdinger” of a case of pneumonia, which put me in the hospital for 4 days right after Thanksgiving and wiped me out for… Continue reading »
