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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 24, 2020, 10:40:36 pm ---Cool, but (I’m on my phone so I haven’t gone to the link yet) what are their authors’ names? Are they legendary members of The Canon? Is anyone required to read them for school? I guess I shouldn’t have made it sound like such a thing would never be published. And I’m sure a lot of fishing stories remain obscure as well. But the literary world has definitely been a patriarchy with less acceptance of domestic issues, at least until lately.
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I'm sorry if the above sounded snarky. I should never try to write long comments on my phone! (That, and I can see my post was full of typos.) :laugh: I read the list, and had never heard of any of the authors or the books. The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club is not quite up there with The Old Man and the Sea.
But then, very few books are! Including books about fishing.
There definitely is a gender imbalance in many aspects of writing and literature, including bylines in the New Yorker. But I'm sure there's something to this Hemingway guy; he seems to have caught on. :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 25, 2020, 09:53:08 am ---There definitely is a gender imbalance in many aspects of writing and literature, including bylines in the New Yorker.
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That's an interesting point. I wonder if anybody has ever tried to run the numbers on that? ???
Then, too, are there women writers covering stories like Dexter Filkins, Jon Lee Anderson, and even Ben Taub? I don't remember.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 24, 2020, 03:10:42 pm ---Would you consider giving us cover dates instead of just "the latest"? The latest issue I have has George Floyd on the cover.
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The Kafka story is in the June 29 issue. I'm now reading the article about King David, and noticed that the word "cult" appears at least twice.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 25, 2020, 12:04:12 pm ---That's an interesting point. I wonder if anybody has ever tried to run the numbers on that? ???
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Yes, Jessica Esch: https://www.genderavenger.com/blog/new-yorker-gender-tally-2017-jessica-esch
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 25, 2020, 12:57:33 pm ---The Kafka story is in the June 29 issue. I'm now reading the article about King David, and noticed that the word "cult" appears at least twice.
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Five years ago the Briefly Noted book column included a novel about David called The Secret Chord. It seems the author portrays David's relationship with Jonathan as sexual, and his encounter with Bathsheba as a rape.
Maybe some day I'll finally get around to buying and reading it.
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