Male Room

Jude Cook on why a press for male authors is important.

Early on during my planning for Conduit Books – a new independent press announced last month that will initially publish male authors – I identified a fairly serious flaw in the scheme. The fact is, I don’t like men very much. Or most men. While others might say the real flaw is 3,000 years of patriarchal dominance, which makes such a venture redundant from the start (and a few have said as much in the tsunami of reaction, while other voices have been more balanced, particularly in the Guardian), I did think seriously about abandoning the project.

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