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What Does It Take to Get a Guy to Read a Novel?

MAN UP

Men account for only 20 percent of the fiction market. Maybe if they had better recommendations, they’d read more stories. Because life does not have to be like high school.

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Men don’t read fiction. Some of us do, of course. Some of us can’t stop. But when I became a novelist, I was surprised to learn that men account for just 20 percent of the fiction market.

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