Books about women don’t win awards: solutions
The skewed publishing landscape is fixable. The key is data, masses of data. It will need many hands.
Read moreMonth: May 2015
Books about women don’t win big awards: some data
Data suggest that the more prestigious the literary prize, the less likely the winner is to write about women or from a woman’s perspective. Women have literary cooties.
Read moreNew Menewood maps and tidbits up on Gemæcce
Nothing here today but over on my research blog I’ve posted details of Hild’s travels in Book II. Tomorrow, a data-intensive post: women who write about women win fewer awards than women who write about men.
Read morePink Floyd is embedded in my work
When I was ten or eleven my soon-to-be brother-in-law gave me his old Phillips’ cassette recorder and tapes of Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma,…
Read moreWriting from the Body
Art and the Body are huge subjects with all kinds of branches and nooks and crannies. In what follows I poke around in those topics that interest me—the philosophy of dualism, cyberspace as nirvana, the concept of genius, the religious right—and see which pieces connect along the way.
Read moreUnnecessary rape
I can’t issue prescriptions or proscriptions for others’ work. I can tell you my own thoughts on the matter: rape is gratuitous and unnecessary, in life and in art.
Read moreAs We Mean to Go On
An essay about how Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge met at a writing workshop and how books and the written word made their love possible.
Read moreDon’t ask anyone to work for “exposure”
Writers, photographers, web designers, graphic artists, often get asked to do things as favours, or for “exposure.” Doctors, dentists, lawyers, plumbers, builders, chefs, hair stylists not so much. Why?
Read moreSusan Karlsen, Luminaries massage
This post is basically a giant thank you for all the care and attention from Susan Karlsen, massage therapist, over the last nine years. I’m hoping that there’s at least one reader who lives in the Seattle/Shoreline/Richmond Beach/Edmonds area who will immediately email or phone Susan and book an appointment. Or who will give a gift certificate for her services to someone who does live here.
Read moreMe as Hild
I couldn’t be at University Bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day when they had that great pretend-you’re-Hild poster board, so I popped in yesterday and had a go…
Read moreEyeball as first-person shooter arena
No masks or gowns or gloves, just a couple of drops, what felt like a first-person shooter in my eye, and wearing sunglasses for a few hours.It’s pretty amazing to live in the future.
Read moreHow to look like Hild
For Independent Bookstore Day, visitors to University Bookstore in Seattle get their Hild on!
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