Women Writers And The Struggle For Shelf Space

Book2BookTuesday 04 Aug 2015

Vonnegut isn't. Neither is David Foster Wallace. Nor is Michael Cunningham, the Millers (Henry and Arthur), Twain, Poe, McCarthy (Cormac, not Mary), Bolaño, Murakami, Beckett, Ginsberg, Marx, Chomsky, nor Roth. It is easy to keep most of the works of these men on the shelf. They will sell: often regardless of title and when published. Representing them is easy.
But how to keep women writers equally represented when the shelf space needed doesn't pay for itself?


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