One much anticipated conference session at BEA every year is the Editors' Buzz panel, in which editors present six hotly anticipated fall books. Its track record isn't perfect -- of last year's adult books, one became a huge commercial breakout and two critical darlings -- but the curiosity renews itself anyway.
My laptop was long dead by the time yesterday's panel rolled around but I took copious notes on this year's picks, including "X meets Y" Hollywood-style descriptors and other stray comments. Click to embiggen:
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"There has been some discussion about the likeability of female characters."
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It's that thing where you refer offhandedly to a huge controversy and wink as if to say "But we don't have to take sides on that now!" only you are taking sides by even bringing it up. Sigh, the Internet.
we're just not sure if women are likable. wink. wink. blargh.
More like "Maybe the character in this book is likeable and maybe she's not! Wouldn't you like to know???" (It was a woman speaking, also, which makes a little difference.)
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