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• Wikipedias woman-wrangle

  
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  Credit to Rutgers art history major Nicole of Bendomolina.John Singer Sargent, "Apollo and the Muses," Boston MFAThe ongoing Wikipedia flap over the removal of women from "American novelists" and their placement in "American women novelists" continues. Heres a pretty good summation from The New York Review of Books. ...
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• Oooh..La...La....Gathering of Waters is translated into French...

  
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  Oh yes, and the French gave it a new title............................................................... Bernice L. McFadden
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• The Skill List Project: Exposition Preliminaries

  
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  This is another post in The Skill List Project : an attempt to list all the skills involved in writing and selling fiction, particularly science fiction and fantasy. Last time , I said that we’d begin looking at the E-word: exposition. So let’s get to it. Opening Exposition Exposition means conveying ...
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• News Round Up: April 27th

  
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  Moans over Mantel, wails over Wikipedia, and a damp squib for the new Spare Rib?
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• Wikipedia Says Women Aren’t ‘American Novelists’

  
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  Wikipedia is arguably crowdsourcing’s greatest triumph. The site can be edited by anyone, which is both a blessing or a curse, but it has created the largest encyclopedia in human history, covering vastly more territory than any company or organization possibly could. Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the site is a ...
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• in brief: wikipedia writes women from literary canon

  
  lip magazine: for girls who think feel create speak out live — Authority: 145
  Amanda Filipacchi from The New York Times reported on Wednesday that editors on Wikipedia were systematically removing female authors from the category of ‘American Novelists’, and placing them instead in their own subcategory of ‘American Women Novelists’. One by one, in alphabetical order, women were being ...
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• Wikipedia Is Quietly Moving Women Off Their American Novelist Page

  
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  From Jezebel: Wikipedia Is Quietly Moving Women Off Their American Novelist Page If you go to Wikipedia’s page for American Novelists, you might notice something strange: Of the first 100 authors listed, only a small handful of them are women. You could potentially blame this on the fact that there simply are ...
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• Wikipedia Ghettoizes Women Novelists

  
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  There are American novelists, and then there are American women novelists – at least according to … Read more »
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• Taiye Selasi Debuts with Ghana Must Go: A Novel About Family Drama and Forgiveness

  
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  Ghana Must Go , the first novel by Taiye Selasi, who was recently included in Granta’ s Best of Young British Novelists 2013 list , will be published locally by Penguin in May: A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go by rising star Taiye Selasi is a tale of family drama and ...
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• Three Authors Who Got Me Started

  
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  I am on the verge of finishing the manuscript of the third volume in my Thieftaker series (written as D. B. Jackson ).  The book is tentatively called City of Shades , and it will not see light of day until the Summer of 2014 (book 2 in the series, Thieves’ Quarry , will be out on July 2 of this year), and in ...
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• Sales Update

  
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  Deep thanks to all who so far have participated in sharing news of the .99 Kindle sale for  Awake in the Mad World . This deal runs through the end of April. The novel is in both top 1OO categories on Amazon for bestselling Coming of Age Fiction, paperback and now Kindle. I believe in the relevance and importance of ...
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• Jewish Authors Honored by British Literary Magazine

  
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  Naomi Alderman. Photo: Wikipedia. A prestigious literary magazine has released its once-a-decade list of top young writers, and five of the twenty inclusions are Jewish. The British journal Granta released its Best of Young British Novelists, and among the choices were Adam Foulds, Naomi Alderman, Benjamin ...
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• Kindle Sale!

  
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  Awake in the Mad World,  as advertised at  Ereader News Today , is on sale through Kindle for .99 throughout the rest of April. The novel is being sold from 3.99-7.99 at other online dealers, as well as 14.99 in print. So for Kindle lovers/owners, please take advantage of this April book bargain, share the deal with ...
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• Nnedi Okorafor and Lauren Beukes on Damien Walter’s List of Best Young Speculative Fiction Novelists

  
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  In light of Granta choosing their Best of Young British Novelists 2013 , Damien Walter has picked his top young speculative fiction novelists in a column for The Guardian . Lauren Beukes gets the first mention in Walter’s column for Zoo City and The Shining Girls and Nigerian-American Nnedi ...
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• TV Review: GAME OF THRONES – Season 3 – “Dark Wings, Dark Words”

  
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  TV Review: GAME OF THRONES – Season 3 – “Dark Wings, Dark Words” Carice van Houten in GAME OF THRONES - Season 2 - Dark Wings, Dark Words" | ©2013 HBO/Helen Sloan Stars: Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley, Emilia Clarke, Aidan Gillen, Iain Glen, Kit Harington, ...
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• The Women’s Prize and Granta’s Best Young Novelists

  
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  A couple of lists which have been announced in the last 24 hours. First, the shortlist for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction : Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel Where’d You Go, ...
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• Granta Best Young Novelists List Dominated by Women

  
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  Granta reveals the 20 best and brightest young novelists in Britain...
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