A few months ago I interviewed Anna North for this podcast, and the character of her novel, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, got me thinking about the idea of likeability. What we allow female characters to get away with, or not. And what we allow female creators to get away with or not.  We realized it was a subject that we could really get into and decided to put a panel talk together along with Chloe Caldwell and Jenny Zhang. And that happened last night at the Strand Bookstore here in New York. The subject apparently touched a nerve because we sold out that room. Some of us had only met ten minutes before we got onstage together, but our experiences, while individual, were coming from the same place, and we had a lot to talk about. (Event photo by Kyle Lucia Wu)