Chabon mentions Pynchon

[Tom Beshear]

Munro writes short fiction, not novels, which is a harder sell with many 
readers.

Some younger female literary writers I'd recommend are Lauren Groff, Tea 
Obreht, Kate Christensen, Dana Spiotta, Eleanor Henderson, Jesmyn Ward, and 
Megan Abbott (the last is marketed as a crime writer but she's a literary 
novelist subverting genre tropes).

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Cc: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>; "P-list" 
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The publishing machine for literary fiction, the promotion of who over whom, 
heavily favors men.

the good women writers Bekah mentions do not sell as well as the men do and 
it isn't for quality reasons for many. (Munro).

One sorta inherent vice in the literary fiction marketplace is that female 
readers will read male and female writers, in general; whereas male readers 
will not read women writers in proportion.


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On Oct 27, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On Oct 25, 2012, at 10:02 PM, Michael Bailey 
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> alice wellintown wrote:
>>> re-read and study the first chapter.
>> ok
>>
>>> And, looking into a handful of the post-Pynchon novels, or whatever we
>>> call the generation that Chabon, Moody, Franzen, Whitehead, Wallace,
>>> T.C. Boyle (?), why all males?
>>
>> because they have one x & one y apiece? because the Equal Rights
>> Amendment got torpedoed and the females are on strike?
>
>
> Because US publishers like women to write the far more lucrative  "women's 
> books"   as does Jodi Picault,  and maybe the better women writers, 
> Barbara Kingsolver,  Anne Tyler,   Marilynne Robinson etc.   Women authors 
> are fully accepted in the nonfiction and crime genres.   There are a few 
> who can slip by into praiseworthy literary fiction (whatever that means) - 
> Cynthia Ozick is one.   Karen Yamashita,  (! -  I, Hotel )  Toni Morrison 
> (fading),  Gish Jen (newer) are some others - Julie Otsuka maybe.
>
> Zadie Smith is still more British than American,  and the very British 
> Hilary Mantel is excellent now with the Cromwell stories.  Rowling's new 
> one - Casual Vacancy was … interesting but … she's no Zadie Smith by a 
> long shot.
>
> Shirley Hazzard is from Australia now in the US - I doubt she has another 
> book in her.  Alice Munro (Canada) is also aging now - as is Ozick.
>
> Bekah
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