Jennifer Egan Responds to LA Times Photo Snub

Last month the LA Times kicked up a well-deserved feminist firestorm when they ran a photo of author Jonathan Franzen above a story about how novelist Jennifer Egan had just won the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Franzen had supposedly been the favorite to win and the Times claimed they couldn’t dig up a recent photo of Egan–even though they covered the even in person.

Egan addresses the Times’ snafu in an interview with Entertainment Weekly and took the issue head on.

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