There is a fantastic extract from Sophie Cunningham’s essay on the need for a women’s prize in literature (published in the most recent Kill Your Darlings) on the drum website.
The gender differential in every area of the literary world is shocking. Surveys consistently find women read more books than men, especially fiction. As Ian McEwan once put it, “when women stop reading, the novel will be dead”. But while men are buying around 20 per cent of the books, they are doing most of the reviewing of them, and the books they are reviewing are usually written by men.
Read the rest of the extract here. Or buy the whole thing here.
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