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.