spit lit?

Apparently, London's "annual celebration of women's writing" is called the Spit Lit festival. I don't get it. Anyway, this is a fairly depressing article on the lack of literary heroines over 40. In some ways, literature is even worse than film when it comes to giving this very large demographic a voice (that demographic being women over 40...not literary heroines).

Via Bookslut's Michael Schaub, who adds: "Asked for comment, the publishing world stuck their fingers in their ears and commented "NA NA NA NA NA NA WE'RE NOT LISTENING NA NA NA NA NA NA."