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Dear Deadpub: Men Didn’t Stop Reading. They Stopped Reading YOU.

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Brian Niemeier
Jul 09, 2025
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Spend enough time on social media, and you’ll see the same stale memes spammed by the same tired institutions. The latest to claw its way out of the grave is the claim—dutifully repeated by The New York Times—that men have “disappeared” from fiction reading altogether.

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