Men are leaving fiction reading behind. Some people want to change that.
Men are leaving fiction reading behind. Some people want to change that.
In the mid-20th century, when this man browsed bookstore shelves, fiction was a boys club. Today, the situation has changed.Credit...John Murray/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images
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By Joseph Bernstein
For the first meeting of his book club for men, Yahdon Israel, a 35-year-old senior editor at Simon & Schuster, asked the participants to bring a favorite work of fiction. Not everyone completed the assignment.
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