“The losses include volumes created hundreds of years ago, some mutilated by having single sheets brutally removed with scalpels. Tens of thousands of historic books and manuscripts are thought to be missing, according to a leading art lawyer, Chris Marinello, head of London-based company Art Recovery International.”
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Do We Look At Domestic Fiction Differently Based On Whether A Man Or A Woman Wrote It? Cheryl Strayed And Pankaj Mishra Weigh In
Mishra: “Novels about suburban families are more likely to be greeted as microcosmic explorations of the human condition if they are by male writers; their female counterparts are rarely allowed to transcend the category of domestic fiction.”
Strayed: “Notions of domesticity and femaleness are so entangled that many presume it’s the only thing women can write about … There’s been nary a day in the past decade that I haven’t had to set someone straight about the fact that I wrote my books for people, not women.”