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January 16, 2015

Friday News: upcoming romance conference, fake memoir pulled, sexist internet comments, and Kickstarter’s trends

JanetPublishing Newsautobiography / conference / crowdfunding / fake memoir / gender / genre critique / Kickstarter / Literary Criticism / Romance / sexism7 Comments

Library to Host Conference, “What Is Love? Romance Fiction in the Digital Age,” Feb. 10-11 – Next month Harlequin will be sponsoring a conference on Romance at the Library of Congress. Conference program and registration information can be found here. It looks like the Popular Romance Project is also a ... more >

January 8, 2015

Thursday News: on the contemplation of women, genre fiction, and life in general

JanetPublishing Newsage / diversity / Fantasy / gender / genre critique / Haruki Murakami / Romance / scholarship2 Comments

Yet More on Female Characters in Fantasy – Rhiannon Thomas responds to Robin Hobb’s Facebook post on female characters in fantasy. Hobbs argues, among other things, that “I do not feel that gender defines a person any more than height does. Or shoe size. It’s one facet of a character. ... more >

January 6, 2015

Romance is not a feminist genre – and that’s okay

JanetLetters of OpinionAmerican literature / diversity / feminism / gender / genre critique / Literary Criticism / literary history / patriarchy15 Comments

As a genre celebrating love and largely written by and for women, I think it’s easy to view Romance as an inherently feminist genre. I have felt this way myself at times, and I’ve seen many other readers and authors make similar assertions. But what I’m going to propose today ... more >

December 16, 2014

What does it mean to be a “good” reader?

JanetLetters of Opinioncritical discourse / genre critique / reading / tropes / writing13 Comments

Last weekend delivered a hat trick of essays on critical reading, two on KJ Charles’s m/m novel Think of England, and one on Deborah Fletcher Mello’s The Sweetest Thing, in which Liz McCausland also addresses the intertwined issues of “good writing” and “good reading.” More specifically, she argues, I don’t ... more >

December 2, 2014

Deserving love and our own genre expectations

JanetLetters of Opinionemotional justice / genre critique / id vortex / reader response / ways of reading15 Comments

One of my favorite things about blogging here is that I can write about a germ of an idea and see it grow and blossom in many different directions and to places I had not even anticipated. Last week’s post on emotional justice is a great example of that, because when ... more >

November 25, 2014

Romance and Emotional Justice

JanetLetters of Opinionemotional justice / genre critique / grovel / love / tropes54 Comments

So I recently saw the movie version of Gone Girl, which had some provocative differences from the book, even though both were written by Gillian Flynn. Those differences, which include a reversal in sympathetic portrayals between the husband and wife, may have been a function of directorial or editorial vision. ... more >

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