What was the lineup on the Books pages of the Express-News this week? For Sunday, July 1, 2012, the gender breakdown looked like this:

• Number of reviews/stories: Six
• Female authors: Two
• Male authors: Four

We also featured one poem by Janice Rebecca Campbell.

The books featured included Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver, A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers, The Chicken Hanger by Ben Rehder, Barack Obama: The Story by David Maraniss and The Last Minute by Jeff Abbott.

There were technically two books featured in the “Poetic Diversity” column, Nape and The Wonder Is: New & Selected Poems by Jan Seale, the Texas Poet Laureate.

Three of the featured writers – Rehder, Abbott and Seale – are Texas based.

So far, my totally unscientific, two-week gender count of our local books page looks like this:

• Number of reviews/stories: 11
• Female authors: Four
• Male authors: Seven

Hmmm.

– Jen