In the essay, Wolitzer recounted a bitterly amusing anecdote in which a man she met at a party, after hearing her describe her novels-“Sometimes they’re about marriage. It’s packaged respectfully, reviewed widely, and marketed to people of all genders.īut books by Franzen’s and Eugenides’s female colleagues tend to be relegated to what Wolitzer called the “lower shelf.” Their covers suggest domesticity, their spines are slimmer, and their contents are dismissed by some male readers as “one soft, undifferentiated mass that has little to do with them.” The distinction is significant in many ways, but particularly for sales: Both men and women read books by men, but books by women are far more likely to be read by women than by men. When a well-regarded male novelist such as Jonathan Franzen or Jeffrey Eugenides publishes a new novel-even one preoccupied with relationships, like Freedom or The Marriage Plot-publishers and readers automatically take the book seriously, Wolitzer argued. This couldn’t have been lost on Wolitzer, who published an essay in The New York Times Book Review in 2012 lamenting that literary fiction by men tends to be received differently from literary fiction by women. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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"That's the best version of Klay, when he's really going offensively but he's taking great shots," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. (The Lakers hit just 10 of their 34 3-point attempts.) With Thompson leading the way, the Warriors were 21-of-42 from 3-point range. He made the Lakers pay for that strategy with his passing, dishing out 12 assists in front of a sellout crowd at Chase Center in San Francisco. Steph Curry had 20 points for the Warriors while facing double teams through much of the game. Klay Thompson had a game-high 30 points for the Warriors and shot 8-for-11 from 3-point range. The Golden State Warriors crushed the Los Angeles Lakers 127-100 Thursday night in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals, evening the playoff series at 1-1. Watch Video: Can Steph Curry become the GOAT? Here's what it would take to get there Galgut said he was accepting the prize “on behalf of all the stories told and untold, the writers heard and unheard, from the remarkable continent that I’m part of”. He was previously shortlisted for The Good Doctor in 2003 and In a Strange Room in 2010, but lost both times.ĭespite his status as favourite, Galgut said he was “stunned” to win. Galgut took the prize on his third time as a finalist, for a book the judges called a “tour de force”. Galgut had been British bookmakers’ runaway favourite to win the 50,000-pound ($69,000) prize with his story of a troubled Afrikaner family and its broken promise to a Black employee – a tale that reflects bigger themes in South Africa’s transition from apartheid. South African writer Damon Galgut has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction with The Promise, a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history. It’s my first Mariana Zapata book and I wanted to give it a five star but damn this book dragged on so many scenes. Well, this book was so much fun to read but I hated its huge length. I’m not really into Sports romance, but I finally decided to give this a shot after a lot of people recommended it to me because I love slow burn romances. What do you say to the man who is used to getting everything he wants? She has plans and none of them include washing extra-large underwear longer than necessary.īut when Aiden Graves shows up at her door wanting her to come back, she’s beyond shocked.įor two years, the man known as The Wall of Winnipeg couldn’t find it in him to tell her good morning or congratulate her on her birthday. Being an assistant/housekeeper/fairy godmother to the top defensive end in the National Football Organization was always supposed to be temporary. Vanessa Mazur knows she’s doing the right thing. GENRE: New- Adult, Contemporary, Sports, Romance. |