/lit/ - Literature

Heh.

You mean "the least bad"?

Me

Simone Weil. Blows maybe 70% of male writers out of the fucking water.

A.K-47 applegate. Read animorphs you pussy

>>10980387
Ecclesiastes

>>10980400
I hope you're not bamboozling me. I will check out Simone Weil.

>>10980387
CAM
ILLE
PAGLI
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I liked Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson, and also the Balkan and Levant trilogies by Olivia Manning.

Oh, and Kathy Acker. Weird, but great.

Aphra Behn

>>10980387
The only right answer is Sappho

>>10980387
George Eliot
Flannery O’Connor
Carson McCullers

Leonora Carrington
Tove Jansson

>>10980494
GOD-TIER

why are women so bad at everything i like

>>10980522
Mainly just Eliot and O’Connor. I genuinely learned a lot about writing from reading her collected non-fiction. Her novels are strange (still worth reading) but her short stories are really where she shines. I unironically could see religious writers studying “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” as a seminal piece of religious fiction, it has some serious depth.

McCullers is mostly a pet-interest, she’s a phenomenon rather than a fully developed artist, but still interesting nonetheless and a naturally good stylist.

>>10980387
>virginia
>ursula
>sapho
>sylvia
>mary
>doris
>agatha
>harper
>maya
>emily
>simone
>flannery
>iris
>anna

Wuthering Heights is a manly book written by a woman.

>>10980717
Truth

Also Niffenegger is pretty good

>>10980387
Emily Dickinson.

Ootsuka Reika

virgina woolf
flannery o'connor
mary renault
margaret yourcenar
elizabeth jolley
edith wharton
simone weil
alice munro
cynthia ozick (maybe? dunno her)

>>10980387
Joy Williams

>>10980387
I had to read a bunch of non male authors back in school. The only one I liked was Evelyn Waugh. All the rest were pure cancer.

>>10980717
>>10980835

PRO TIP: if you're in a progressive female-dominated situation e.g. University seminar, a good thing to say to get on the right side of feminists is:

"Wuthering Heights is really good; it could almost have been written by a man."

>>10981061
Ebin
Absolutely ebin

>>10980835
>Niffenegger

tf you called me nigga?

shelly

>>10980387

A M Y
H E M P E L

>>10980387
If you want some pseud-cred for owning a book you most likely won't ever understand Ayn Rand is a solid choice.

>>10981061
kek

>>10981765
Ayn Rand is garbage but her philosophy isn't difficult to understand at all.

Zadie Smith

Savitri Devi

>>10980397
L O N D O N
O
N
D
O
N

>>10981765
she's a terrible writer who uses plots as vehicles for ideology.

>>10980387
Pleased to see O'Connor and Weil getting attention on this thread. They are both incredible authors.

I'll add Willa Cather to the mix. Her characters are pretty fantastic

>>10980387
>female author
>Best
That's like asking which pedophile is the best babysitter.

Ann Beattie

>>10982103
Here are two selected words, one from a male author and one from a female author. I dare you to correctly pick which gender wrote which.

"I"
"Then"

Who is the best male author?

>>10982150
Dick.

>>10980387
Magda Szabó
Djuna Barnes
Clarice Lispector
Virginia Woolf
Tatyana Tolstaya
Anna Ahkmatova
Eileen Chang
Edith Wharton
Flannery O'Connor
Carson McCullers
Shirley Jackson
Dorothy Parker
Emily Dickinson
Alice Munro
Mavis Gallant

Get reading, OP

>>10982478
To add to this, some modern wenches:

Samanta Schweblin
Pola Oloixarac
Anne Carson
Susan Sontag

>>10980387
Your entire library is male?
I have at least five books each by these female authors. They might be worth a try:
Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, A.S. Byatt, Margeurite Duras, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Hebert, Shirley Jackson, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart.

>>10980494
>named "george"
>female

MILK AND HONEY
I
L
K

A
N
D

H
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N
E
Y

>>10980387
I've only got Dickinson, who, desu, can stand with the best men.

>>10982150
probably tylo b chillin

Pleny good, you're a pleb if you think otherwise.
Ayn Rand
Jane Austen

>>10980387
some sex/porn stuff i suppose

>>10982116
those two words are damn short novels.

>>10981934
Absolutely nothing wrong with that. In fact it guarantees digestion by the layman. For wiser minds she made nonfiction. All an intellectual really needs from Atlas Shrugged is John Galt's Speech.

>>10982606
Hmmm yes, I do like me some Anne Carson. I own Nox, but haven't read it, but Autobiography of Red was great.

I'm also fond of Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck.

And I'm ashamed to have forgotten Sontag.

>>10980387
Yourcenar for sure

>>10984394
Fuck. Memoirs of Hadrian has been on my to-read for who knows how long. How is it? (If you've read it).

I'm this anon:
>>10982478
>>10984371

Forgot to mention Donna Tartt. Currently reading The Goldfinch.

>>10980387
Why do you need a female author? What qualities does a woman have that a man doesn't that directly contributes to your necessary philosophical inquiry and intellect?

>>10980387
Ayn Rand without a doubt. The best part is that she would agree with the sentiments itt a say it was a goddamn shame a man hadn't formulated Objectivsm before her. The fact that Rand was what she was as a woman was a one in a million flash in the pan coincidence. It was so much more likely for a man to coin Objectivism that the fact it was her anyway is staggering.
You can thank the horror that was Soviet Russia for being the pressure cooker that formed her. I am convinced that the formulator of Objectivism HAD to come from communist hell and was incapable of being born in the freedom that was American capitalism. Even though Objectivism is the bar-none greatest defense and proof of of Capitalism that came into existence.

>>10981089
I could see myself saying this with the biggest shit-eating grin right before I get kicked out. I wouldn’t be able to resist the jejs.

Just read the bronte sisters

>>10981061
Good shit