What was up with that Twitter feud you had with Jonathan Franzen?
It wasn’t a feud. I’ve never even spoken to Jonathan Franzen – who is a really talented guy. After he received two book reviews in one week from the NYT, I tweeted a fact: that the NYT book review tends to review female authors twice in one week (Sunday and daily version) than it does male authors. This is suspicious since the majority of book buyers are women. Did I mention this is a FACT? The media, however, misquoted this, creating stories that I hated Jonathan Franzen, that I was jealous, that he’d kicked my dog…you get the point. Jennifer Weiner, a wonderful, outspoken author, immediately came to my defense. It didn’t stop the media from deciding we were BOTH snarky and selfish and wanted better reviews. In reality, both Jen and I GET great reviews. And we both go out of our way to promote unknown writers– blurbing their books, blogging and tweeting about them. Furthermore, Mr. Franzen actually agreed with us, stating that women writers do not get the same sort of coverage that me
