Finished reading: Game Changer by Rachel Reid 📚
📚 Thank goodness someone is thinking of the men (novelists). 🙄
The Guardian seems grateful that this year’s Booker winner puts masculinity back at the center of literary fiction, claiming that for a decade women have dominated litfic.
Novelist Caro Claire Burke looked at the numbers: men have ⁷won 60 - 80% of major book awards in the past decade. Seems like “female interiority” is sharing the stage.
Let’s imagine for a minute that litfic was dominated by women for a decade, contrary to fact.
Literary fiction as a term seems to have been popularized around 1980. That’s 35 years before women dominated. Take it back to modernists in the 1920s. Men dominated for 90 years, then. Or go back to the beginning of printing: 500+ years.
Even if women were winning 70 - 80% of literary prizes (and we aren’t), there’s a long way to go before anyone needs to worry that men are being pushed to the margins of literature.
Finished reading: Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells 📚
It’s a little embarrassing that it took me watching Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein to understand that Mary Shelley is both Victor AND the creature, not just Victor. (It’s not news that I make too much of her alignment with either of them.) 🍿
🍿 Victor Frankenstein has postpartum depression.
Finished reading: Dream A Little Dream by Susan Elizabeth Phillips 📚
If your public library, like mine, is having a delay in ordering new books due to the closure of Baker and Taylor, may I suggest checking out an author’s backlist? Susan Elizabeth Phillips would be a great choice.
🔖 Read W.E.B. Du Bois’s Remarkable Data Visualizations in Jillian Hess’s newsletter, Noted.
It’s thrilling to see how DuBois established practices for both data collection and data visualization that continue to be critical in the social sciences today.
Finished reading: Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase 📚
Hey @manton/ @help , I am having this same problem with creating posts in both Strata and Epilogue on Android.