Keep your eyes open: our new website should be launching shortly! I’ll give details when it goes up.

And I can understand their not including the great work that has come out from smaller presses, that’s just the nature of their business, but that’s why just using the one issue I did as an example that their list grows even more imbecilic.

Also, I added Bonnie Jo’s title to the wiki, and can’t wait to see how massive that thing gets!

One danger of putting holes in coffins though is that if put enough of them in, you may make a hole that just lets the dead thing out again. What I mean by that is that it’s important for me to keep in mind that PW’s self-aware sexism may have been a calculated move to generate controversy. This can only boost their revenue from all the attention, examination, etc. This is not to say that criticism should not occur on every level. But there also needs to be more direct, long lasting moves. What should happen are calls for boycott of PW, not calls for improvement. People who are on the list should ask to be taken off the list. Calls should be made to have people fired.

Responding to Zumas’s post I wrote:
“Off the top of my head for the best books of 2009, I’d have to include Anne Michaels’s The Winter Vault, Mary Caponegro’s All Fall Down, Joanna Ruocco’s The Mothering Coven, Joanna Howard’s On the Winding Stair, John Haskell’s Out of My Skin, both Fugue State and Baby Leg by Brian Evenson, and Norman Lock’s Shadowplay.”

I forgot to add Tina May Hall’s All the Day’s Sad Stories and Eileen Myles’s The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art in my best of the year (so far!) list that you can find in the comments here: http://bigother.com/2009/11/02/ndiaye-wins-goncourt/#comments

I’m a member of WILLA and have added a couple of titles to the Great Books by Women wiki . . . I encourage everyone to check out the list, and add whatever books you think are missing!