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If you've followed the battle lines of the gender wars recently, one of the most heated fronts is over publishing. Men, the story goes, don't read anymore, especially not fiction, because women in publishing have kept younger white male authors out of the industry. What's left is an industry trading on the fumes of romantasy slop. Hope you like fairy porn, otherwise, it's old science fiction novels for you. Purveyors of this narrative tend to minimize the broader decline of reading as well as the vast increase in competition, across all mediums, for entertainment time. But there have been gendered shifts in who reads and writes books as the publishing industry has evolved. And there's certainly been plenty of discussion in outlets like The New York Times about why men have left the written