More on the PW 10 Best Novels Controversy

November 7, 2009

Following up on my earlier post about the Publishers Weekly controversy, I thought I’d highlight two of the more interesting related items I’ve come across:

• Salon’s Laura Miller has a reasonable and—more importantly—realistic, non-abstract article about the whole kerfluffle.
• WILLA, which posted the press release I linked to before, has a wiki page where readers can contribute titles of books they think could have been on the list.

The WILLA List provides many titles that go beyond the usual suspects… which is good, because the immediate reaction to the list seemed to be to list a number of well-known authors with books out—Atwood, Dove, Kingsolver, Lorrie Moore, etc—that weren’t particularly great even if they were by famous authors with many better books to their credit.

Tags: Publishing, sexism