Cannie shapiro books5/20/2023 And if you believed that - if you wrote that way, or if you read that way - then, by God, you were Doing Reading Wrong." But Weiner overreached in her response, taking Messud to mean, "Novels were absolutely, positively not there to serve the petty function of helping people feel connected. There's the case of Claire Messud, author of several critically acclaimed novels, who said in reference to Weiner's amiable protagonists, "If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble." Messud was acknowledging that good fiction is teeming with unlikable characters, from Uriah Heep to Gollum. She tells Mead she feels compelled to be a mouthpiece, because "if some literary woman were to be known as a gadfly, or a crank, even - somebody who won’t shut up, somebody who is persistent and abrasive - that could hurt her, career-wise."īut when it came to Weiner’s attacks on some of these other authors, she has gone over the line, especially with female writers. She recognizes that her success in commercial fiction has given her unique leverage that more "literary" female authors may lack, and she wants to use her power for good.
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