/lit/ - Literature

>booktok is on the rise
>booktube is huge
>literature is still dead

>>19404630
Ok I seem to be the only actual girl on this thread let me give you my thoughts.

Most of what I read falls into male-written lit from the 1850s-present and female written-lit from 1850s-1960s with the rare contemporary female author (here, I'll give you some of the good ones).
>Ali Smith, Katharina Volckmer, Olga Tokarczuk, Hilary Mantel (questionable), and maybe Mary Oliver
The list get much better the farther back you go:
>Brontes, Shelley, Woolf, Elliot, Lessing

One of the reasons I attribute to femlit being bad is because most women have some literary talent (however poor, they can get words on page with a dedication and low quality standard that dwarfs that of any man). And while women are great at writing trash (diaries, romances, YA, etc), women are also great at reading trash and the market for this pulp is insane (especially now). It used to be that you should be ashamed of harlequin romances but now they're being peddled on Knopf's instagram page. I wont get hung up on book-tok cause that's a whole other beast.

But to answer your questions:
>Women write like this because they can and it sells, why would you stop doing something that makes you money and strokes your ego?
There are plenty of competent female authors out there but alas they are buried under much more trivial pulp than male authors.