/lit/ - Literature

That's a male writer

Liveship Traders

>>23280539
I love this ironic tweet
She has to be making fun of modern romance writers

>>23280539
Dame Frances Yates
Jane Ellen Harrison
Dione Fortune
LeGuin before she hit menopause and went all hysterically shrill about how evil men are...

>>23280539
I like some female writers despite their femaleness

i like marilynne robinson for her nuanced, mature and sincere portrayal of the beauty and value of faith and god. a luminous author
i've only read her fiction but i want to read her new book about genesis

>>23280539
The last books written by women I read were sci-fi books by books called A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine and the sequel. They were good, I could see how the author background's influenced the universe, story and characters, she's fond of Byzantine history apparently.
Also La Mare au Diable by George Sand, short and sweet pastoral novel but mostly forgettable, it was just ok. All of those I read a while ago now.
I admit I generally avoid books written by women because I'm misogynistic.

>>23280582
Just finished Lila. Sublime. Was comparing it to Steinbeck at first, but she's better

>>23280539
>Do you like female writers, /lit/?

No

>>23280539
>Do you like female writers, /lit/?
I don't like writers in general. There are, like, 3.5 humans (who happened to be male) that I consider overall worthwhile, and it's too small a number for any meaningful statistical analysis.

I read My Year of Rest and Relaxation on top of a few classics like Wuthering Heights. Which makes me think, is there a femchud movement? They're all still riding the progressive train, and save for the insincere podcast grifters that only appeal to men, I can't think of any. Even most TERFs are fully progressive, just don't want their progressive movements usurped.
What is the female return to tradition movement?

>>23280539
Not really. Ayn Rand was okay.
>What was the last book you read?
Mein Kampf.

>>23280539
Sounds like Donald Trump.

>>23280723
"HE STARTED PUTTTING HIS PENIS NEAR HER VIRGINIA. IT WAS BIG. NICE, BIG PENIS. BIGGEST IVE EVER SEEN. NOT HER VARGINA. THAT WAS SMALL. ANYWAYS, SO HIS PENIS IS STARTING TO GRAB HER VIRGINA"

Recently finished The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Fucking loved it. Are McCuller's other books as good?

>>23280726
MANY SUCH CASES

>>23280539
>lust provoking image
>irrelevant time wasting question

>>23280539
Atlas Shrugged

>>23280539
I really liked Wuthering Heights. I liked Slouching Towards Bethlehem. I liked Orlando, but never got to finish it. I didn't like The Voyage Out, but I might try reading it again. I dropped Beloved and The Left Hand of Darkness because I found other books I'd rather read, but they were alright. I thought The Bell Jar was alright too. I'm pretty ambivalent towards wimmin authors. They're just, like, authors.
>>23280686
>I read My Year of Rest and Relaxation
How did you like it? Would you recommend it? I'm revealing how neurotic I am by saying this, but the biggest reason I haven't started reading that book is because I don't want to look like a pathetic loser reading womancore in public as part of a futile attempt to impress women. I really am a loser, but I'm very stubborn and proud and I would never resort to something like that. I hope.

>>23280658
/thread

>>23280539
I read Fledgeling and Parable of the Sower by Butler for the double dip diversity cred of a PROUD WOMAN OF COLOUR. So fledgeling is like a loli vampire story with some scenes that would have a male author crucified. Sower is a boring apocalypse, again with a lot of sexual violence (indirect). They were both kinda meh? Plodding, aspirations to be something more than the genre fiction they are but they don’t reach it. Instead of the male standby of shock violence it’s shock sexuality.

I read Piranesi which I genuinely liked. It’s the kinda book I would write, a bit Lynchian, stuck in a nightmare, a bit mythological. Just great.

I might give Gone With the Wind a chance since the movie is great.

>>23280539
sounds like passive aggression to all the big vagina owners she grew up with who teased her microcunt.

>>23280539
/lit/ doesn’t even read male writers

>>23280539
If a book is advertised as being by a female writer, or if it has a heavy focus on identity politics it'll be bad. Frankenstein was great tho.

There are some good female writers. Patricia Lockwood is based.

>>23283826
Percy wrote it.

>>23280539
most recently read female authors:
>Florence Williams - Breasts
>Edith Hamilton - Mythology
>Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

all 3 great books, however, the first is very obviously written by a journalist

>>23286110
>Florence Williams - Breasts
what's that one about?

>>23286149
it's a massive braindump on stuff about breasts:
mammalian biological history, modern views of their evolution, how they physically work, takes on the benefits/downsides of breastfeeding, chemicals/hormones from the environment that affect them, endocrine disruptors, lots of stuff on breast cancer (including the importance of male breast cancer in research), etc etc etc
i say "written by a journalist" because the book definitely does try to be funny. i didn't chuckle or anything, but i didnt think it was cringe either. i think it was a good read.

>>23280539
If that is all it takes to make a hot buck off the feminine libido, buckle up boys, we're gonna be rich! Here, here, watch.

"Tiny 'giny. Big weener. SEX! Vacuum-sealed like a pickle jar, SEX!"

Voila. I'm rich.

>>23286110
Percy Shelley wrote Frankenstein. It’s well known. Mary Shelley Stan’s ngmi. As if a teenage girl could write that book.

>>23281941
It's nothing more than fine, although I don't know how it compares to its contemporaries coz I don't really read them. It's short too and neurotic so you might like it.

>>23287214
>Percy Shelley wrote Frankenstein. It’s well known
I've never heard this before. Source pls?

>>23286017
Debunked.

>>23287214
>here let me just write a book that's much shittier than my normal output and also all about a teenage girl's pregnancy anxieties and also the manuscript is in her handwriting

>>23287214
Like many retards you don’t know Mary didn’t just write Frankenstein. Nor do you have any idea what the difference between their styles are because you read neither.

>>23287757
I don't know why people say that, we have the draft and it shows that Percey annoted and corrected it. It means that she couldn't have written such a book alone but obviously it's hers.

>>23287757
>Source pls?
iirc the most prominent defender of the "percy wrote it" theory is a deranged faggot activist that thinks it must have been written by percy because it's actually about being gay. he also thinks aids is made up or something

>>23280539
That's a terrible excerpt. How is she published and able to make a living?

>>23280539
All I can say is women really have no place complaining all the time about sexualization
They're the ones who fall back on it more than anybody else

>>23280539
she's one of the greats, sorry

>>23280556
Feminism lies to women about how it’s never too late to find a husband and start a family and being a breadwinner has nothing to do with biological sex and evolutionary psychology. When a feminist hits the wall, she can either blame the movement for lying to her or she can blame men for not finding a 40-50 yr old as sexually attractive as a woman in her 20’s

>>23280582
i read this name a couple of times on here now. looked her up and most of her novels were published fairly recently. Are they really good or is some anon here just a big fan? they look interesting...

I really like Barbara Pym and Sylvia Townsend-Warner