The original interview by author and part-time instructor at Victoria College, David Gilmour:
http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/bl...trong-stomachs
Holger Syme's amusing response to the interview:
http://www.dispositio.net/archives/1688
Gilmour's piece about Virginia Woolf:
http://the-toast.net/2013/09/25/davi...irginia-woolf/
My take:
If Gilmour can’t identify with authors who are superficially unlike himself, then, logically, he can’t identify with characters who are unlike him, either. That makes it hard to believe he could be a decent fiction writer or know enough about characterization to teach literature.
Sample quote from Gilmour's interview:
"Usually at the beginning of the semester a hand shoots up and someone asks why there aren’t any women writers in the course. I say I don’t love women writers enough to teach them, if you want women writers go down the hall. What I teach is guys. Serious heterosexual guys. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chekhov, Tolstoy. Real guy-guys. Henry Miller. Philip Roth."