Denise Levertov and H.D. and Christina Rossetti and Phyllis McGinley (and, more recently, Penelope a Lively and A. S. Byatt) are some of the most important authors I've ever read. Of course, I read them because they are very good, not because they are women. This gender business eludes me. I am a man. I am not a masculinist.
The problem here is that there are perfectly reasonable sentiments (read many perspectives) eclipsed by the "trigger warning" the author encounters in RABBIT, RUN. I'm actually devoting August to buying books ONLY written by women in an attempt to cultivate more gender parity in my library. But even though Jennifer Weiner's recent novels are awful, I'm not going to use this as a bully pulpit to dismiss all women writers, many of whom are quite marvelous.
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