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Leonard Pitts: After a year of reading books only by women, I'm a richer man for it


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Leonard Pitts: After a year of reading books only by women, I’m a richer man for it
My bias had deprived me of whole vistas of discovery. And if you choose to see in that a broader lesson, I won’t argue.
By Leonard Pitts Jr.The Miami Herald
Or a race against time to foil a terrorist plot.
Or a zombie apocalypse. A zombie apocalypse would definitely hit the spot.
As some of you will recall, I gave up those and other literary pleasures a year ago, bidding farewell to the likes of Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy and Stephen King. Before we knew all the awful things that 2020 would be – The Year of Pandemic, The Year of Racial Reckoning, The Year of Endless Election – I stood at this podium and put my own stamp on it: 2020 would be The Year of Reading Women, I said. This, after realizing that I, avowed feminist and voracious reader that I am, seldom read female authors – that for years, I had been unconsciously but consistently ignor ....

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