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