I love you, Jennifer Weiner

[pjthompson]

"I think it's irrefutable that when it comes to picking favorites - those lucky few writers who get the double reviews AND the fawning magazine profile AND the back-page essay space AND the op-ed, or the Q and A edited and condensed by Deborah Solomon - the Times tends to pick white guys. Usually white guys living in Brooklyn or Manhattan, white guys who either have MFAs or teach at MFA programs...white guys who, I suspect, remind the Times' powers-that-be of themselves, minus twenty years and plus some hair."

—Jennifer Weiner, interview, The Huffington Post, August 26, 2007

Comments

[asatomuraki.livejournal.com]

That is so awesomely spot-on. :)

[pjthompson]

Yes!

[mount-oregano.livejournal.com]

White guys who don't habitually write SF, fantasy, horror, romance, or other genre, too.

Women who write those things. . . well, they're totally out of luck.

Thanks for posting this.

[pjthompson]

You're welcome. I'm glad somebody is saying it, even if it's twisted the shorts of others.