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March 31, 2016

Thursday News: gender and book coverage, Nintendo, fatphobia in YA, and one-book wonders

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / fatphobia / gaming / gender / Nintendo / online harassment / VIDA / YA1 Comments

New study shows gender gap narrowing in book coverage – VIDA’s latest study demonstrates that strides are being made in the representation of both men and women, although they are not consistently large or equally distributed across publications. VIDA, otherwise known as Women in Literary Arts, told The Associated Press on ... more >

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February 25, 2014

Tuesday News: Laura Lippman on ambitious women, Apple’s new pretrial motion, the 2013 VIDA Count, and humorous book art

JanetPublishing NewsApple / book art / feminism / gender / Laura Lippman / price-fixing lawsuit / VIDA3 Comments

Lippman On Women and Ambition – This is a relatively short but powerful talk by Laura Lippman, and while she identifies herself explicitly as a crime writer, she’s speaking, in a sense, for all women writers, and certainly for all women writers of genre fiction. She embraces the concept of ... more >

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