Last week the National Book Foundation announced its "5 Under 35," four of whom were women. Now it's announced the…

Last year, four out of the National Book Foundations prestigious "5 under 35" were women. And this year, ladies lead…

Jennifer Egan just won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad. She is a woman. In an interview,…

When an interviewer asked Hugo- and Macarthur-winning novelist Octavia Butler what she thought of her books being…

After a post last month about the gender disparity in magazine publishing, which was followed by VIDA's much more…

The National Book Award finalists were just announced, and four of the five in fiction are women. Four of the National…

The kerfuffle over Jonathan Franzen's Freedom prompts one critic to ask, "Can a Woman Be a 'Great American Novelist?'"…

In And The Heart Says Whatever, Emily Gould set out to flout the traditions of many women's memoirs. Her book is the…

Is 2009 the year of the female short story writer? Maybe, but some of the literary lionesses on this list have been at…

Despite hopeful stats from a few years ago, men now outnumber women in the blogosphere by two to one. So why don't more…

A few weeks ago, I said I felt it was premature to assume that David Letterman's workplace affairs necessarily led to a…

Gawker readers will remember "book hot" author Marisha Pessl — according to a a recent VQR piece, even reviewers are…