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Women writers have a few words for Gay Talese, who struggled at a writing conference with a question about which female writers have inspired him. "The Orchid Thief" author Susan Orlean says Talese's comment didn't surprise her, given his age, because women writers weren't given their due when he was growing up. The 84-year-old Talese struggled to respond when asked at a narrative writing conference in Boston on Saturday which female writers had inspired him, mentioning Mary McCarthy before saying he couldn't think of anybody. Author Roxane Gay says Talese's age is no excuse and he should know better. Author Katie Roiphe, however, says it's absurd to police people's inspirational influences. Talese says he believes he misunderstood the question.

Women writers, like Orlean, have a few words for Gay Talese