/lit/ - Literature

>>19716808
Alice Sheldon
Ursula Le Guin

Elfriede Jelinek
Clarice Lispector
Ottessa Moshfegh
Natalia Ginzburg
Stephanie Vaughn
Lorrie Moore
Jane Bowles
Joan Didion

>>19716876
>Alice Sheldon
looks very interesting anon, I'll have to check her out

>>19716900
Remove Didion and this is actually a great list

>>19716876
Le guin is shit. She is also a whiner who spent 40 years complaining about not being recognized by academia when she couldn't literature to save her life.

>>19716808
>shirley jackson
i read her about a year ago, nothing she wrote really stood out. She was just mildly pleasant to read

ppl rlly jst b pstn th wmn NYRB pblshs
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The only femoid writer I ever liked was as Evelyn Waugh.
All the rest were pure cancer.

>>19716876
>Ursula Le Guin

Terrible, terrible, terrible. We are trying to make a case for women, not pity them. You do not belong in this thread.

>>19716808
Anais Nin. Embrace the smut

>>19717093
>Anais
Anaïs. Embrace the umlaut.

>>19717011

He was a dude though.

>>19717136
only partly

I like
Mary Renault
Zora Neale Hurston
Eileen Chang
Stella Gibbons
Elizabeth Bowen

Agota Kristof

I'm not the widest read but Middlemarch is a phenomenal book so George Elliot

>>19717144
YWNBAW: (You) Will Never Be A Writer

my waifu Frances Burney

>>19716808
They might not be shit, but aren't they all still kind of boring?

>>19717173
Flannery is based.

>>19717172
fukkn BASED

>>19717176
so?
That's not really the point of literature to simply be "based".

>>19716951
>>19717023
Honestly I have never read Le Guin, I just cited here because I liked her translation of the Tao Te Ching. Is she really that bad? You should read Alice Sheldon, though.

>>19716808
Clarice Lispector

>>19717275
That's not her you stupid coomer. That's a Playboy Bunny.

>>19717023
What makes her terrible?

>>19717134
No thanks. I don’t like eggs

>>19717275
I like some her short stories even though I’m not always certain what is happening

ayn rand

>>19716808
Mary Renault

I got a book of Mavis Gallant's short stories recently and I've only read four or five so far but I like them. One really stuck with me, it was about dead people giving reports to some unnamed authority that they're being "haunted" by the living.

Wish I could understand why their work feels so frivolous. What is going on in their heads? Is it lack of drive?

I've been reading Annie Dillard lately and have gotten into her prose. Picrel is terrific

Cristina Campo
Hilda Doolittle
Alejandra Pizarnik

>ctrl+f
>"Hannah Arendt"
0 results.

>>19717011
lmfao

>>19716905
It's not a great list; it's curated to cover historical and ethnic bases from a pool of writers that, say, not-really-hipsters-but-they-think-they-are types in Midwestern grad schools would consider 'cool'.

Weird that all those names are modern. You should take a look at the classics like Austen, Bronte and Dickinson if you haven't already, I think generally they are the best female writers.

Also you missed out Carson McCullers and Sylvia Plath. Annemarie Schwarzenbach is fun to read as well if you like travel/adventure stuff.


>>19717210
Don't bother with them. I've been trying to squeeze out any justification at all for liking that horrible woman for a while now, but all they do is deflect and call me a cringe tranny. They are simply not worth the effort.

>>19716808
Tatyana Tolskaya, Sleepwalker in a Fog

>>19719518
Plagiarising Jew.

>>19716951
Early Le Guin is good; The original Earthsea trilogy, the Left Hand of Darkness, all that stuff is great (if a little too lefty at times), it's only in her later years did she go full screeching feminist.

>>19717011
kek

>>19719630

>>19716808
Hiromi Kawakami

Sara Teasdale
Edna Saint Vincent Millay

Spark, Barnes, Rachilde, Colette

Eudora Welty. She's got great short stories. She's just a generation after William Faulkner. She wrote a great essay "Why must the Novelist Crusade?" that I recommend to anyone here.

>>19716808
>not a fan of Virginia Woolf
die in your imaginary harem of bimbos then

>>19716965
Only Elizabeth Taylor fits your NYRB idea as far as I know. Are any of the others being rereleased by them?

>>19719630
>Weird that all those names are modern. You should take a look at the classics like Austen, Bronte and Dickinson if you haven't already, I think generally they are the best female writers.
I was mainly thinking of fiction writers, and Austen and Brontë are already so obvious. I have read The Bell Jar, and found it just alright.

>>19722154
Very true I forgot about her. Love Losing Battles

>>19723014
>I was mainly thinking of fiction writers, and Austen and Brontë are already so obvious. I have read The Bell Jar, and found it just alright.

Oh that makes sense. And yeah, I don't think The Bell Jar is for everyone. I read it when I was 18 and loved it, but I reread it recently now I'm a little older and I didn't enjoyed it as much. I think as I've matured, I've become more at ease and familiar with my emotions, so it didn't seem so profound going through it a second time. But it was one of the first books to really make sense to me so it stills stays as one of my favourites I've read.

Also since my reply I've remembered Agatha Christie; I don't think I ever really see her mentioned here but she's pretty good. The Murder on the Orient Express is a fun read.

>>19716808
>Alice Munro
Based. Would add Edith Wharton to that list.

>>19716808
Memoirs of Hadrian is one of my favourite books.

>But I hesitated still about where to place the tomb. I recalled that in ordering rites of apotheosis everywhere, with funeral games, issues of coins, and statues in the public squares, I had made an exception for Rome, fearing to augment that animosity which more or less surrounds any foreign favorite. I told myself that I should not always be there to protect that sepulchre. The monument envisaged at the gates of Antinoopolis seemed too public also, and far from safe. I followed the priests' advice. On a mountainside in the Arabic range, some three leagues from the new city, they indicated to me one of those caverns formerly intended by Egypt's kings to serve as their funeral vaults. A team of oxen drew the sarcophagus up that grade; it was lowered with ropes to those subterranean corridors, and was then slid into position to lean against a wall of rock. The youth from Claudiopolis was descending into the tomb like a Pharaoh, or a Ptolemy. There we left him, alone. He was entering upon that endless tenure, without air, without light, without change of season, compared with which every life seems short; such was the stability to which he had attained, such perhaps was the peace. Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.

/lit/ really letting the Incel show lately huh? Are chuds particularly angry this season because their internet money coins are dying?

>>19716808
Daphne du Maurier, James Tiptree (Alice Bradley Sheldon)

I'm surprised to see that no one's mentioned Margaret Mitchell. Gone With The Wind was pretty kino.

>>19719518
Why did mods take down my reply? Arendt is Jewish and she plagiarised her work.

Is Jew a slur now, or are you not allowed to criticize them?

>>19724461
>are you not allowed to criticize them?
what did voltaire say about that one, again?

>>19716808
Alright, I'm gonna say it: I like To the Lighthouse and Virginia Woolf

ivy compton-burnett
barbara comyns
jane bowles
muriel spark

>>19724461
You’re a child molester. That’s why you were deleted.

>no Mary Shelley

>>19724483
I, too, love Woolf

Clarice Lispector

>>19724483
I took Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse....

>>19725825
That’s Sarah Palin

>>19716808
Nien Cheng
Carlson McCullers
Amy Tan
Joan Didion
Colleen McCullough

Sad Willa Cather hasn't been mentioned til now.

>>19722124
>Sara Teasdale
This
>>19716808
Why not Woolf?She was great