Author Who Won't Teach 'Books by Women' Provokes Twitter Wrath

The online literary world is abuzz Wednesday with the naming of this year’s MacArthur "genius" fellows, but even on a day of writerly cheer, there's a bitter bookish argument to be had in the Internet’s gutters. This time, it’s about some comments made by award-winning novelist and University of Toronto professor David Gilmour in a feature on publishing website Hazlitt, an extension of Random House of Canada.

Gilmour was the subject of a column called “Shelf Esteem,” which is a “weekly measure of the books on the shelves of writers, editors, and other word lovers, as told to Emily M. Keeler.” Keeler herself was understandably taken aback by what he said when she remarked that his academic office had only two books by women in it. Read more...