She Writes Day of Action
On the whole, it’s been a pretty good year for women in literature: Huerta Mueller won the Nobel; Hilary Mantel the Booker, Annette Gordon-Reed the National Book Award, and Elizabeth Strout the Pulitzer. We appear to have come "a long way, baby" since the days when Nathaniel Hawthorne declared that “[a]ll women, as authors, are feeble and tiresome” and Norman Mailer wrote “[t]he sniffs I get from the ink of women are always fey, old-bat, Quaintsy, Gaysy, tiny, too dykily psychotic.” (Too dykily psychotic?) And yet no women are included in the PW top-ten list? Only eight on Newsweek 50 books list of “What to Read Now” this summer? And Amazon, in its “Best Books of the Year” includes only two books written by women in the top ten – both sporting male protagonists—and in its longer list of 100 books includes more than three times as many books written by men as by women?
In the spirit of the She Writes Day of Action, I added to my bookshelves full of terrific books by women another two - both published in 2009 - which I've heard terrific things about: Jane Gardam's The Man in the Wooden Hat, and Stephanie Kallos's Sing Them Home. I hope everyone I know is doing the same!
In the spirit of the She Writes Day of Action, I added to my bookshelves full of terrific books by women another two - both published in 2009 - which I've heard terrific things about: Jane Gardam's The Man in the Wooden Hat, and Stephanie Kallos's Sing Them Home. I hope everyone I know is doing the same!
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Comment by Marilyn Campiz on November 15, 2009 at 12:22am
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Well, you are all invited to look at my work, and we really need to support each other. There are many writers, men and women, who shy away from the publishing industry houses. We see it coming, like the media elite's path has been so charged with fear. The collapsing of the newspaper industry, to large houses scrambling to realize that the public is tired of reading manufactured works. They are tired of list books.
The game has been about money, the risks of money and how much you gain or lose. What they do forget, is that you also gain and lose talent by solely focusing on money. Believe it or not, Joan Crawford said those words when commenting on how Hollywood had already trended towards manufacturing movies in the 1960s that focused on angry young men.
Works will continue to be dominated by men until we show that our stories are worth telling, buying, selling, and producing....according to the standars that have been established by MONEY....and not by people.
Continuing my quest...as all of you are...and that IS WHY WE WRITE!!
Marilyn Campiz
Daegu, South Korea
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