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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 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 10, 2014

Wednesday News: More controversy for Lena Dunham, exercising your speed reading skills, Elena Ferrante on writing and storytelling, and Cora Buhlert on romance in SFF

JanetPublishing Newsauthor interview / defamation / fitness band / Literary Criticism / publishing / Random-House / Romance / Science Fiction / smartwatch6 Comments

Publisher to Alter Lena Dunham Book After Rape Story Questioned, Attorney Says – More controversy surrounding Lena Dunham’s first book this time based on her allegation that she was raped while at Oberlin. Her description of the fellow student is apparently very similar to a former Oberlin student who shares ... more >

December 8, 2014

Monday News: victim-blaming, ghostwriting, and messaging in books

JanetPublishing Newsdoxxing / female agency / genre fiction / ghostwriting / Literary Criticism / patriarchy / sexual-assault / YA fiction12 Comments

Conservative blogger reveals unconfirmed identity of alleged U.Va. rape victim – I can barely report on this story without devolving into a sputtering rage. Anyway, this guy who’s clearly trying to make a name for himself (which is obvious in his tweets here, especially the one about “self-employment”) by doxxing ... more >

November 18, 2014

Tuesday News: Did Uber threaten a female journalist; are books essential goods; why is the Internet a guilty pleasure; and how we can get the meaning of life in 60 seconds or less

JanetPublishing NewsBooks / creative writing / doxxing / harassment / Internet / journalists / Literary Criticism / Misogyny / philosophy / publishing / Uber / videos10 Comments

Report: Senior Uber exec threatened to dig up dirt on journalists – So apparently stalking and doxxing have gone mainstream. According to a story in Buzzfeed and discussed in this Gigaom piece, Uber’s Senior Vice President of Business Emil Michael proposed holding female journalist Sarah Lacy “personally responsible” for any ... more >

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November 3, 2014

Monday News: Digital books and learning, reading strategies, Pew’s online harassment research, and advertising at Dear Author

JanetPublishing NewsAdvertising / Ebooks / formatting / harassment / interpretation / learning / Literary Criticism / poetry / reading / social media11 Comments

Ebooks suck for learning – Baldur Bjarnason has written a relatively short but pithy post that brought to mind those articles claiming that digital books are making us stupid, blah blah blah. Bjarnason focuses on the way physical books are formatted to cue us in directions that allow us to ... more >

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