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Sigh. This oughtta be an interesting comment stream…
- After Jodi Picoult’s complaints about JFranz getting mag covers and a great NYT review because he’s a white male, it was only a matter of …Time… before someone started to crunch the numbers (see what I did there?) Turns out she was right…
- Here in Canada, however, coverage seems to suggest things work the other way…
- And in the UK, discussion with AS Byatt around the Orange Prize leads her to say that women who write intellectual books are written off as “strange and unnatural” by critics
[Update] Commenter Panic (below) posts a frank open letter to Picoult at this link.
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August 23rd, 2010 at 10:31 am
Anyone who reads the NYT review knew she was right. Doesn’t mean she, in particular, deserves any good reviews though!
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:34 am
Christ, Jodi Picoult, do you really need to get reviewed in the New York Times? I don’t think you’re going to like what they’re going to say…
In all, Picoult reminds me of a great exchange from the movie “Broadcast News”
Good-looking, dumb anchorman (William Hurt): What do you do when your real life exceeds your dreams?
Dowdy, smart reporter (Albert Brooks), bitterly: Keep it to yourself.
Take your millions and your adoring female fans who obviously don’t read or need the NYT to find each crap new book you publish, Picoult, and keep it to yourself.
August 23rd, 2010 at 6:00 pm
I read an interview with her (somewhere, long ago) where she said how grateful she was, as a writer of commercial fiction, to be reviewed regularly. Guess it wasn’t enough!