I don't know how much anyone has been following the current debate among the literary world regarding the NYT and NPR's unequal coverage of male vs. female authors, but I have been seeing quite a lot of it on Twitter, and so I went through and tallied a couple things. All fractions are female authors/total
Books read for Book Club (2011-12 school year): 0/5
Books read for Book Club (2010-11 school year): 0/7
Books read for CIS: 2/9
Books read for English (2009-fall of 2011): 1/14
Books read 2009, 2010, 2011, respectively: 55/99, 60/92, 29/75
So despite the fact that I read about equal amounts of female/male authors, I have only picked books written by men for the last five months. And in English over the past three and a half years, I have read a total of 3 books by women.
Let's read books by women for the rest of the year in book club hell ya.
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