Matters of gender and sexuality come to the surface repeatedly in the scuffles discussed in The New Yorker piece called “Literary Feuds of 2013.” In the past year, there have been debates over the double standard to which the personalities of female protagonists are held, criticism of a female writer’s novel as being “too macho,” and an article promoting the idea that mothering more than one child can be detrimental to the work of female writers. The article betrays a sense that in 2013, we are still trying to battle the perception of a divide between “writers” and “female writers,” and the belief that a writer’s sexuality must factor into his or her work.
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