Great article (from Mother Jones) and interview with VIDA's founder on women writers and how we're Still missing from the magazines--and lit journals--& hello David Remnick, we do submit! Does anyone at the New Yorker read unagented fiction--or poetry? http://ning.it/IaoSMB

       It’s no secret, this mantra we often hear from agents, publicists, publishers, about the need to “build a platform” to attract attention to one’s work—but how many of us are attracted to this idea? ... Might it be possible there’s another way instead, of connecting with possible audiences while staying essentially true to ourselves as writers? Three fiction writers offer their takes on creating a meaningful literary space that attempts to do just…

    One of the best things about going back to books you've read in part once or in full once and sort of shelved or set aside is discovering in them gems that speak so fully to a contemporary situation. I am still dipping into Tillie Olsen's deeply thoughtful and compendious book Silences, but the words I discovered in there about book reviews prompted a recent guest post on the Los Angeles Review blog:

   “Few books ever have the…