Women writers

“American women novelists” segregated by Wikipedia

Wikipedia's overwhelmingly male user-editors began the bizarre forced gender migration on Tuesday

Katie Mcdonough Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 1:01 PM UTC 15
Media women, Women writers, Sexism

Barbara Pym gets rediscovered — again

From Paula Fox to Richard Yates, literary rediscoveries are in vogue. The latest model is wry satirist Barbara Pym

Laura Miller Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 12:00 AM UTC
Entertainment Books, Fiction, Women writers

New York magazine asks 28 men and five women to assess Philip Roth

Seriously? Twenty-eight to 5? This is why we need to keep talking about gender imbalance in the literary world

Roxane Gay Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 5:18 PM UTC
Entertainment Books, Philip Roth, Women writers

Hilary Mantel lands on Booker Prize shortlist

Mantel's "Wolf Hall" won the Man Booker Prize in 2009. Now her sequel makes the 2012 shortlist

Prachi Gupta Tuesday, Sep 11, 2012 4:13 PM UTC
Entertainment Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel

Judy Blume has breast cancer

"Wait -- me?" The famed children's author announces her diagnosis in an emotional blog post

Prachi Gupta Wednesday, Sep 5, 2012 9:54 PM UTC
Life Women writers, Breast cancer

Do reviewers target female writers?

Michelle Dean gives us another reason to be wary of overly harsh book reviews

Prachi Gupta Thursday, Aug 23, 2012 10:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Alix Ohlin, Books, reviews

A prestige-free zone

The reason why women writers dominate young-adult literature is the reason why many guys avoid it

Laura Miller Wednesday, Aug 15, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 38
Entertainment Books, Young Adult Books

Dear female students: Stop writing about men

Guys in my class don't feel the need to dissect broken relationships. Why do the women? For that matter, why did I?

Lorraine Berry Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 39
Life Life stories, Women writers

I’m a writer who doesn’t write

I'm writing constantly in my head. How can I find the time to put these things on paper?

Cary Tennis Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 12:00 AM UTC 44
Life Since You Asked

Chick lit reimagined as respectable fiction

We team up with TheGloss.com to find out how to turn that best-selling genre of female writing into real literature

Drew Grant Tuesday, Apr 19, 2011 12:01 PM UTC 17
Entertainment Satire, Sex, Sex and the City

When a love for art turns into lust

Anne Roiphe's passion for literature led to flings with male talents of the time -- until she found her own voice

Tracy Clark-Flory Monday, Mar 14, 2011 10:21 PM UTC 15
Life Sex, Coupling, Women writers

Literature’s gender gap

Women are underrepresented in literary publishing because men aren't interested in what they have to say

Laura Miller Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011 12:01 PM UTC 112
Entertainment Women writers, Feminism

Sleep your way to a book deal

These days, being a celebrity mistress seems a new route to becoming a published author

Elissa Bassist Saturday, May 8, 2010 12:01 AM UTC 18
Life Broadsheet, Memoirs, Sex

Women’s fiction: All misery and martinis?

Female authors and readers are accused of having no taste. Perhaps this was news in the 1800s

Kate Harding Friday, Mar 19, 2010 7:20 PM UTC 13
Life Women writers, Broadsheet

Blogging decreed “a guy thing”

Sorry, ladies, you lack the desire for the "adrenaline rush" of the Internet

Mary Elizabeth Williams Friday, Mar 19, 2010 6:01 PM UTC 36
Life Women writers, Broadsheet

The second-rate “Second Sex”

Simone de Beauvoir's feminist treatise is lost in translation, once again

Tracy Clark-Flory Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 5:50 PM UTC 16
Life Feminism, Broadsheet

Late-night’s new lady

David Letterman welcomes a woman into the writers' room

Tracy Clark-Flory Thursday, Feb 4, 2010 10:05 PM UTC 11
Life Women writers, Broadsheet

Late-night’s real problem

Comedy writers -- male and female -- dish about the strange, men-only world of late-night TV

Lynn Harris Monday, Jan 11, 2010 2:01 AM UTC 67
Life Women writers, Conan O'Brien

“If you want to be a great writer, be a man”

The lack of women authors on one best-of list might not mean much by itself, but it's part of an ugly big picture

Kate Harding Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 9:31 PM UTC 46
Life Women writers, Broadsheet

Female “person of the year”

Since Time hasn't given a woman that honor since 1986, we asked some feminist writers for their picks

Kate Harding Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 4:18 PM UTC 46
Life Best of 2009, Broadsheet

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