December 23, 2005
Speaking of year-end lists, Bookslut's Jessa Crispin has a wonderfully prickly column in the Book Standard on what your personal best books of 2005 says about you:
"If the only women on your list are Mary Gaitskill and Joan Didion . . .
. . . or perhaps a token mention of Zadie Smith, whose On Beauty is not as good as everyone says it is, you need to be reprogrammed. This year, a survey was released saying men do not read books by women, especially not fiction. That, I suppose, explains why books like A.L. Kennedy's Paradise, Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl and Maureen McHugh's Mothers and Other Monsters have gotten almost no love. "
Posted by Rachel at December 23, 2005 09:45 AM
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