The Value of a Woman

This article started off being about the number of women authors on Wikipedia’s list of best-selling fiction authors of all time. However, as I looked at the list, I started to think “What the hell is Shakespeare doing here with these pulp-y, low-brow writers?” and “What does that say about how we value literature?”

So:

Shakespeare is the only high-brow writer in this top ten list. Is that because he’s so incredible that he outshines everyone and breaks barriers or is it because he’s not high-brow at all, just old? I’m going to put my money (heh) on him being old. Shakespeare, gentlepeople, is the 1500’s equivalent of a modern day Steven Spielberg or Notch (creator of video game, Minecraft).

I didn’t think it was possible for me to have any more icons ‘clasted. Here, I’ve been yearning after awards thinking that winning a Nobel Prize would be the height of achievement yet, the ultimate and absolute “Greatest Writer of English Literature of All Time” is really a pop storyteller who knew how to market, merchandise and get his shit out there. He was, after all, part-owner of his theatre company.

To sum up, women rule when it comes to selling books, pop lit IS literary and we need to change the story around storytelling.

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