‘Men need liberation too’: do we need more male novelists?

As a small press launches dedicated to new male fiction, authors including Anne Enright and Nikesh Shukla ask if men are really being pushed out of publishingJude Cook, author and publisher of Conduit BooksIn Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the languid Lord Henry announces: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”I’m not so sure. During the days after the announcement of my new small press, Conduit Books, the conversation about the balance and representation of women and men in publishing roared back into life. The reason was that, initially at least, Conduit Books will publish literary fiction and memoir by male authors; a modest attempt to address the relatively recent scarcity of young or new male writers in the small world of UK fiction. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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Jackie Robinson’s daughter wants to talk about race: ‘We still have hate’

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Rick Moody’s New Book Takes on Marriage, for Better and for Worse

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Lit Hub Daily: August 23, 2019

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Susan Straight’s memoir is a letter to her daughters — and a reckoning with America’s past

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Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Essay Collections

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