Whither the men?
Not in your local bookstore, that’s for sure. For the past several years, writers and pundits have been wringing their hands over how few men are supposedly writing and reading fiction today. It is numerically true that women make up a majority of fiction readers and nearly always have. But this crisis is apparently of both new literary and social import. In December, still reeling from the reelection of Donald Trump, thanks in part to the support of young men, the creative-writing professor David J. Morris declared that “these young men need better stories — and they need to see themselves as belonging to the world of storytelling.” Once they do so, Morris implied, they will cease their rightward drift and become empathetic, liberal creatures once more.
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