Still Other Things to Talk About When We Talk about We Need to Talk About Kevin’s Author Talking About Racism
First we talked about novelist Lionel Shriver wearing a sombrero for part of her address at the Brisbane Writers Festival, wherein she espoused the unpopular opinion that arguments against cultural appropriation have… Read more »
Publishers Weekly releases results of annual salary survey
Last Friday, Publishers Weekly’s Jim Milliot posted the results of the magazine’s annual Industry Salary Survey for 2015. The salary portion of the survey shows modest gains in median salary and median… Read more »
Some other things we talk about when we talk about We Need To Talk About Kevin’s author talking about racism
Last week we wrote about novelist Lionel Shriver’s controversial comments about cultural appropriation. For those playing catch-up: At the Brisbane Writers Festival, Shriver gave a talk on “community and belonging” wherein she… Read more »
What we talk about when we talk about We Need To Talk About Kevin’s author talking about racism
Perhaps you’ve read about the phenomenon of cultural appropriation as it relates to the wearing of headdresses and bindis that is endemic to music festivals. But how about the wearing of… Read more »
Lionel Shriver calls the Year of Publishing Women “rubbish”
Last year we reported on novelist Kamila Shamsie’s call to make 2018 the “Year of Publishing Women”—an effort to correct the gender imbalance among authors who win and judge major… Read more »