Pulitzer Prize winner manages to insult chick lit authors
The 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction goes to Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit From the Goon Squad. National Public Radio has more on the novel and why it won. Entertainment Weekly has an interview with...
View ArticleA Plagalanche, toxic Westeros, responses to romance bashing, rape in fantasy,...
Yesterday’s plagiarism post has broken the visitor record for this blog, largely due to a link from the VroniPlag press review. The VroniPlag press review also offers a link to this Spiegel Online...
View ArticleA Rather Romance-Heavy Linkdump
I had a dreadful day at school today with some of my fifth-graders acting up so badly that I had to get the headmaster involved. The class was always okay before, but we got new students and two of...
View ArticleHow to suppress women’s writing – the latest go-around
It’s really that time of the year. Not only are we having our annual literary versus genre fiction debate and the annual “science fiction is dying” debate – no, it’s time for the annual misogyny in...
View ArticleControversy, Romance, Translation and Sex – It’s a Valentine’s Day Linkdump
Controversy (or not): The New York Times has an interview with Jodi Picoult, which apparently caused some stir in certain circles. Honestly, I went into the interview thinking I was about to read...
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Eurovision revisited and more feminism and music links
First of all, there is an addendum to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, for Thomas Schreiber, the guy in charge of entertainment at the public TV channel ARD and therefore ultimately responsible for...
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In which Cora totally fails to grasp the appeal of “Girls”
So I tried watching the supposedly generation defining US sitcom Girls tonight, when it had its German TV premiere. And yes, I know you shouldn’t judge any foreign TV show, particularly not one that’s...
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Diversity, Mirrors and Narcissism
The offensive and debate sparking post of the week comes once again courtesy of Amazing Stories, where Felicity Savage somehow manages to link the current fashion for so-called “selfies”, i.e....
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