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Fury after women writers excluded from 'books of the year'

published Thu, Nov 05 2009 07:13 GMT
Campaigners incensed after Publishers Weekly's top 10 titles of 2009 ignores female authorsUS trade magazine Publishers Weekly has come under fire for failing to include a single woman in its list of the top 10 titles of 2009.From Richard Holmes's history of science in the Romantic generation, The Age of Wonder, to Blake Bailey's Cheever: A Life, Geoff Dyer's novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Daniyal Mueenuddin's short story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders and David Small's graphic novel memoir Stitches, Publishers Weekly's all-male line-up has drawn the ire of a group of female writers."The absence made me nearly speechless." said poet and creative writing professor Cate Marvin, co-founder of new US literary organisation Women in Letters and ...

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