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Deborah Copaken Kogan

I’m too old and too invisible to said establishment to care.

It’s career suicide, colleagues tell me, to speak out against the literary establishment; they’ll smear you. But never mind. I’m too old and too invisible to said establishment to care.

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Deborah Copaken Kogan

Men, in other words, are still the arbiters of taste, the cultural gatekeepers

It’s a proven fact, backed by simple math even my first grader can understand: the number of reviews of books by men is greater than the number of reviews of books by women; the number of male reviewers is greater than the number of female reviewers. Men, in other words, are still the arbiters of taste, the cultural gatekeepers, and the recipients of what little attention still gets paid to books.