This guest blog post comes to you courtesy of Silpa Kovvali, a blogger for The Huffington Post currently residing in New York City and a Really Smart Lady. Follow her on Twitter!

Author VS Naipaul, affectionately referred to as “the grand bastard” by critic James Wood, out-bastarded himself at an interview earlier this week by casting aspersions on female writers. All of them. Via Gawker:

“I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me…My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. ...