Aline Brosh McKenna is onboard to write the film adaptation of Rochester, an unreleased graphic novel that's a modern retelling of Jane Eyre. Fox 2000 acquired the rights in a deal worth the "low seven figures". Yowza, that's a whole lot of orphan porridge! » 6/26/13 9:50am 6/26/13 9:50am

Curious what the founders of "The Count," which tallies the number of women who get published in top literary magazines (spoiler: not many), think of the 2012 National Magazine Award finalists? Although four women were nominated in the Public Interest category, there are no ladies to be found in prestigious… » 4/04/12 6:45pm 4/04/12 6:45pm

Last week the National Book Foundation announced its "5 Under 35," four of whom were women. Now it's announced the finalists for the prestigious National Book Award — and these include a lot of ladies too. » 10/12/11 5:40pm 10/12/11 5:40pm

Last year, four out of the National Book Foundations prestigious "5 under 35" were women. And this year, ladies lead the field again. » 10/04/11 7:00pm 10/04/11 7:00pm

Nobel Prize-winning novelist V.S. Naipaul has helpfully explained why women will never be great writers like him. It's because they're not "masters of a house." » 6/02/11 6:50pm 6/02/11 6:50pm

In honor of Women's History Month, eight women writers — including Alice Hoffman, Lucy Coates, and Caroline Leavitt — wax poetic on the women who've inspired them. » 3/19/11 6:30pm 3/19/11 6:30pm

Anne Hays noticed that the two most recent issues of the New Yorker featured almost exclusively essays and reporting by male writers. So she's returned those copies to the magazine, accompanied by a blistering open letter to the editors. » 1/03/11 4:11pm 1/03/11 4:11pm

Wonderful website The Rumpus needed a good, brand-new book by a woman writer for its book club, but couldn't find one. So it commissioned a book of essays by some of its women contributors, including Michelle Tea and Michelle Orange. » 12/02/10 5:48pm 12/02/10 5:48pm

The National Book Award finalists were just announced, and four of the five in fiction are women. Four of the National Book Foundations "5 under 35" are ladies too — maybe all that Franzenfreude is having an effect? » 10/13/10 4:00pm 10/13/10 4:00pm

Four of the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" for 2010 are women (including Tiphanie Yanique, pictured). The list is also includes several writers of color, and three who published their books with small presses. Kudos! » 10/05/10 3:09pm 10/05/10 3:09pm

In And The Heart Says Whatever, Emily Gould set out to flout the traditions of many women's memoirs. Her book is the antithesis of personal growth narratives like Eat, Pray, Love — and she may like it that way. » 5/04/10 4:00pm 5/04/10 4:00pm

At their New Yorker Festival reading on Friday, Junot Diaz and recent MacArthur Genius Grant winner Edwidge Danticat talked about writing with kids, being marginalized as a "nerd of color," and why it's so hard to change the world. » 10/19/09 2:40pm 10/19/09 2:40pm

It's pretty much standard operating procedure for male talk show hosts to compliment female guests on their looks. But in his interview with Sarah Vowell last night, Jon Stewart took another tack — and it was pretty adorable. » 10/06/09 12:40pm 10/06/09 12:40pm

As if penning the original -and still best - piece of publishing chick-lit ever, The Best of Everything » 9/04/08 5:20pm 9/04/08 5:20pm, wasn't enough, the late created a foundation that annually hands out grants of $25,000 to "women writers of talent and promise in the early stages of their writing careers." This year, the prize went to a poet,…

Do you like Maureen Dowd? Do you think she accurately represents your views or, even, some views of women other than your own? How about Peggy Noonan? Not so much, huh? Well, you're going to be hard-pressed to find other women on your Op-Ed pages, according to a new study from Rutgers University, which shows that… » 6/24/08 3:30pm 6/24/08 3:30pm

"We are mired in a repetitious pattern of hate, jealousy and resentment toward those who are plucked by media powers and come to stand — however inefficiently — for the rest of us in the cultural imagination, securing the top spots, the best exposure, the prime media real estate in exchange for opening veins of… » 5/29/08 1:30pm 5/29/08 1:30pm

• Congressional Democrats introduced a bill yesterday that would require all pharmacies to offer emergency contraception, no matter how batshit insane the individual pharmacist. [Feminist]
  
• The Japanese government, however, is offering cash bonuses for families who have kids. [ABCNews]
  
• Maria Sharapova gets a…
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