/lit/ - Literature

>still hanging on to the idea that there are any good female writers
>2012

Simone de Beauvoir
France
>philosopher, had a deep interest in ethics, existencialism and the view of the feminine gender, make some (questionables of course) positive remarks of the society she lived in in regards of genders
Works
>She Came to Stay
>The Mandarins
>The Second Sex (non fiction)

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canada
>vivid personalities, adorable, quirky, fun, bildungsroman
Works
>Anne of Green Gables
>Emily of New Moon

I'm interested in topless female writers.

>just read Plath: "The Colossus"

Damn that bitch had daddy issues, huh?

Virginia Woolf
England
>british modernism
Works
>Mrs. Dalloway
>The Years
>To the Lighthouse

>>2623611
Try googling pictures of Colette

>Colette
>France
>around the time of wwi
>crazy bisexual cross dressing lady
>wrote Gigi, Cherí, and 48 other novels
>worked with Ravel on an opera
>had many lesbian affairs that were frightfully scandalous
>France loves her

>>2623614
lol, no shit. She has a poem called "daddy"... pretty straightforward

>>2623575

Selma Lagerlöf
Sweden
>first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, lesbian, school teacher, wrote about life and death issues, suffragist, lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception characterize her writings, her book The Wonderful Adventures of Nils widely accepted as one of the best books of the 20th century.
Works
>Jerusalm
>The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Sweden
>Astrid Lindgren, one of the worlds most translated authors, children books writer, deals with fantasy in one way or another and usually about children finding their identity and accepting themselves for who they are, strong anti-fascist, Pippi Longstocking is widely considered to be one of the best books of the 20th century, quite dark books for children books some even deals with death and suicide
Works
>Pippi Longstocking
>Brother Lionheats

Sweden
>Sara Lidman, considered one of swedens greatest authors writing about the harshness of life in the great northern outback, often dealing with moralism and how capitalism effected the poor and uneducated, themes of alienation and loneliness, wrote in swedish dialect, pretty much impossible to translate
Works, feminist, anti-vietnam protester, anti-fascist, anti-racist
>Jernbanan series (5 book volume)
>Tar Valley

This women writes bad is pure shit if you ask me.

silvina ocampo
argentina

>limpid prose; awful stuff happening with varying degrees of surrealism
>don't take it from me, here's borges: "one of our best writers... her stories have no equal in our literature"
>and italo fuckin calvino: "i don't know of another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals"

what to get:
>the collection leopoldina's dream -- if nothing else, read "the clock house" and "the house of sugar"

>>2623628
Thanks! Will do.

Elfriede Jelinek
Austria
>power, cliche, gener relations
Works
>Wonderful, Wonderful Times
>The Piano Teacher
>Women As Lovers

>>2623638

hellll fuckin yeah

Flannery O'Connor
USA
>southern gothic, religion, everybody is a sinning piece of shit, some people are actually irredeemable.
Works
>Wise Blood
>The Complete Stories

Emily Dickensin
USA
> I don't know how to describe her style other than to say she touched me or than any other poet.
Works
Lots and lots of poems.
(I'm a male and a programmer so liking poetry at all I feel good about)

Ayn Rand
USA/USSR
>Novelist, Philosopher, Game-Changer
Works
>Atlas Shrugged
>The Fountainhead
>Anthem

Toni Morrison
USA
>black people
Works
>Beloved
>Song of Solomon
>Sula

>>2623634

mfw I was posting her.

Gabriela Mistral
Chile
>poet, noble prize winner, feminism
Works
>Despair
>Sonnets of Death

>>2623629
>you will never be Sylvia Plath's daddy, there to rock and squeeze her fragile body and smell her sweet hair while her psyche crumbles to pieces

kathy acker
usa

>kinda like a female burroughs? or as close as you could get without the universe exploding i guess
>confrontational, fucked up, sometimes sickening, sometimes exhilarating

what to get
>basically anything; blood and guts in high school and rip-off red, girl detective are personal favs -- empire of the senseless if you're into dystopia

>>2623658
He died far before she went nutso

>>2623629
One of my favorites.

>>2623663
Yeah, but imagine coming back to life just to do that.
She would disintegrate.

María Zambrano
Spain
>philosopher, friends with Ortega y Gasset
Work (only I can remember having traslation)
>The works of Return

Joyce Carol Oates
USA
>dark themed novels, very good crafted, besides she looks like St. Vincent's cousin
Works
>Zombie
>them
>The Falls

>>2623666
She's pretty harsh to Ted Hughes in that poem, was he really that bad?
(I don't know anything about their relationship).

>>2623685
The Savage God by Al Alvarez, a book about suicide, has quite a bit about Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. I think at the time of her death Ted Hughes was unfairly judged very harshly. IMHO.

>>2623701
Didn't he leave her, though (although she was crazy, wasn't she)?

The stuff she says about marriage and domesticity in The Bell Jar is pretty revealing

makes you wonder why she got married

There's no such thing as a good female writer. It's an oxymoron. Women don't have the brains or capability write anything other than sandwich recipes. No, I'm not trolling.

Cunts can't do art, science, or logic. Deal with it.

>>2623709

>>2623575
>>2623592
>>2623603
>>2623617
>>2623634
>>2623657
>>2623659
>>2623650
>>2623670
>>2623684

Wow, every single one of these bitches is ugly as fuck. And every one except Rand was a libtard. I guess the fact that they couldn't be successful doing normal women things like running a household and raising kids is why most of them were crazy.

>>2623706
I don't remember. A lot of people bought The Savage God just for the biographical material on her and Ted. (I read it in 1976, which gives you an idea of my age). I haven't kept up. There must be numerous biographies by now.

oh well, the troll brigade has arrived

good riddance

>>2623720
>implying the people saying women can write aren't the trolls.

>>2623709
>>2623718

sorry friends you are over the weight limit for /lit/

might i interest you in a fine reddit this evening?

>>2623720
Don't forget the key to enjoyng /lit/. Separate the wheat from the chaff.

George Eliot
Sappho
Elif Shafak
Anne Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Sara Gruen
Amy Tan
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton

Bah, and this was a good thread, too.

Thanks for the rec's

Sometimes trolling is agitprop. Misogyny needs a spotlight shone on it.

>>2623727
>>2623720
are cool people, thanks.

FLANNERY OCONNOR BITCHHHHHH

>>2623750
>>2623646

I have "The Violent Bear it Away" here on my bookshelf, should I read it now or get "Wise Blood" and then get it?

clarice lispector
>fuck you, i'm not writing anything relevant for you

>>2623763

both are pretty great -- i personally prefer the violent bear it away even though i feel like wise blood might be better on an objective level

doesn't really matter which order you read them in

>>2623769

Good to know, thanks.

Barbara Comyns
Great Britain
>surreal, dreamy prose with most characters being young children or on the level of young children; books have dark themes approached with gruesome detachment
Works
>The Vet's Daughter
>Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
>The Skin Chairs

Olga Tokarczuk
Poland
>small town settings with folklore vibe, slice of life with very slight magical realism elements, leading to comfortably surreal prose; love of people and characterization
Works
>House of Day, House of Night
>Primeval and Other Times

>>2623718

People like this exist and it's still thought that feminism has no place?

Akiko Yosano
Japan
>short sensual poetry, sometimes political, always romantic; generally either mesmerizing or striking, "the poetess of passion"
Works
>River of Stars: Selected Poems
>Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami

>>2623827
I was going to write a thoughtfull response to your post but I ust don't have it in me.
Feminism used to have a purpose. It's time has passed. Now it's only destructive.

>>2623842

I'd say it still certainly has a place

Leonora Carrington
Great Britain/Mexico
>imaginative, surreal, funny, fairy tale/fable-like, entirely weird, sometimes mostly incomprehensible; majority female characters
Works
>The Hearing Trumpet
>The Oval Lady: Six Surreal Stories
>The Seventh Horse and Other Tales

>>2623844
We should have coffee.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

USA

>Poet and sublime sonetteer. Sexually adventurous, and more than modestly atractive. One of the best female US poets of the 20th century.

Works:

>Renascence, and Other Poems
>A Few Figs From Thistles: Poems and Four Sonnets,
>There Are No Islands, Any More: Lines Written in Passion and in Deep Concern for England, France, and My Own Country,

Emma Goldman
>anarchist and social activist
Anarchism & Other Essays

Ursula K. Le Guin
>scifi and fantasy novelist
The Dispossessed
Earthsea books

Some Uppity Bitch
Any-Fuckingstan

>FEMALE EMPOWERMENT DOWN WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT but also lets be sentimental about it

Works
>complete bullshit gobbled up by women and desperate undergrads trying to get laid

>>2624053

Read some Flannery O'Connor, then kill yourself.

>>2624057
i think its clear he was was referring to marjane satrapi

>>2624057
>one exception excuses the many
Not even Yeshua, the one and almighty G-D pulls that shit. He plucks the one and condemns the lot.

READ A LITTLE

>>2623863
Fucking yes. I can only ever find The Hearing Trumpet in England though. I wonder if she's out of print...

>>2623827
I was that person. I was trolling. I wrote that because yes, people like that do exist and it's important to remember that. It's important to remember that most people, when given the chance, become rapists and concentration camp guards. Decency and social equality are very, very fragile things and people that believe in them should never forget they are in a state of constant conflict with everyone else.

>>2624450
>they are in a state of constant conflict with everyone else

They are in a state of conflict with themselves as much as anyone else. There is no built-in preventative algorithm to keep those who believe in something from contradicting those beliefs when they act. Morals exist in the moment. Everyone has the potential to be a fascist, etc.

Carson McCullers
USA
>Southern Gothic, wonderfully immersive and compelling stories full of broken people. Special interest if u gay.
Works
>Ballad of the Sad Cafe
>The Member of the Wedding
>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, legit contender for the title of Great American Novel; written when she was 23

So many fucking Jews in this thread...

>>2623684
Also she wrote this one.

"The most disgusting thing I ever wrote was called The Triumph of the Spider Monkey, which was so disgusting I could barely read the galleys, and whenever anybody mentions it to me, I kind of look away and pretend I don't know what they're talking about."

>>2623579
>this
>2012

>female writers

Hey guys, gender doesn't matter anymore, except when it comes to women. Then gender matters a lot and they should be heralded for having a vagina and the audacity to write. WOMYN~~~

Can female authors be distinguished by their merits, not their sex?

>>2624578
Uh... no?

>womyn

>separate gookclick leagues
>separate chess leagues
>separate category of prizes in academia
>separate rape support groups
>separate buses

>>2624578
You wouldn't read a "book" inked by a nigger would you? Why a female?

>>2624578
Yes, just unfortunately not on /lit/. Don't see how it can be "patrician" to dislike all female writers when many women have contributed such enduring work.

>>2623658
I love Internet humor.

>>2624586

I would and would appreciate both.

I agree with everything in this thread
Fuck women, amirite? pic related

>>2624599
It is nice to see you did not in anyway read the entire thread.

>>2623750

Oh hell yea. Flannery O'Connor is top notch.
Too bad she died young. Her best stuff is her short stories.

>>2624066

i looked her up on alibris after seeing her itt and everything's like $100+

:\

I once murdered a woman, and I got away with it. I was quite young at the time though.

Anyway, my favourite female author is Scarlett Thomas.

>tfw when your literary waifu isn't in this thread

>>2624547
I never noticed before now, but Carson looks strikingly similar to Robert Walser, loL!

>>2624637
That's weird. I just checked Amazon.co.uk and the Penguin Classics edition of The Hearing Trumpet still seems to be in print at £6.79. And the Exact Change edition is there too.

Vicki Hendricks
USA
>noir fiction focused on sexual obsession
Works
>Miami Purity
>Cruel Poetry
>Voluntary Madness

>>2623575
Best threads on /lit/ for days. So many new books to read. Bump!

>>2625233
seconded

>>2624547
You forgot to mention cute as a fucking BUTTON!

>>2624599
that is one ugly chick

kind of young to be a writer tough

I object to Ayn Rand being listed in this otherwise admirable thread.

>>2623768
>probably the best female author in this thread
>this shitty post is the only one mentioning her

Clarice Lispector
Born in Ukraine, lived in Brazil.
>meta-stream of consciousness-parodies dealing with the notion of writing, existentialism and femininity blending essay, short stories and novel.
Works
>The Passion According to GH: A woman crushes a cockroach, and that's all the story. Monumental monologue, canonical work.
>The Hour of the Star: Little novel parodying brazilian pink novels, meta-literarily exploring the activity of writing. Hilarious work.

Isabel Allende

Muriel Spark
Scotland
>charming and psychological books with brilliantly sharp prose and interesting characters; witty and stylish
Works
>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
>Loitering With Intent
>The Girls of Slender Means

Xiao Hong
China
>realistic and devastating, general focus on the rural poor and inevitable tragedy, usually tinged with ironic humor
Works
>The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River
>The Dyer's Daughter: Selected Stories

This is like one of the best threads that's ever been on /lit/.

>>2626700
Honestly!

I've got so much new stuff to read now...

Susanna Tamaro
I believe she's from Italy. I've read two or three of her books and I can recommend Anima Mundi, the others are not that bad.
tl;dr it's pretty much like Hesse

>>2626700
Agreed. It's managed both to avoid being a clusterfuck gender debate and introduced me to Clarice Lispector. I'm about to order some Lispector books tonight.

Rachilde
France
>Fin de siècle Decadent writer, pornographer, anti-feminist, a bit like a female Marquis de Sade but with more cross dressing.
Works
>Monsieur Venus
>The Marquise de Sade
>The Juggler

Tove Jansson
Finland
>
Works:
>Creator of Moomins.
>The Summer Book (1972)
>Fair Play (1989)

Tove Jansson.
Finland.
>
Works:
>Creator of Moomins.
>The Summer Book (1972)
>Fair Play (1989)

Joan Didion
USA
>
Works
>Slouching Towards Bethlehem
>The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion.
USA
>
Works
>Slouching Towards Bethlehem
>The Year of Magical Thinking

HD
>UK
>sucked Ezra Pound's dick literally
>the best of the best when it comes to imagism, woefully underappreciated because she has a vagina
>that haircut

>Marguerite Yourcenar
>France
This is my experience on how I got into her
>at a book fair
>looking around
>old lady around 80 comes nearby
>ask if they have Mémoires d'Hadrien
>she said how much she enjoyed the book
>tears start to drop while smiling
>seller says no
>she leaves
>completly intrigued about yourcenar
>buy a couple of books
>favorite female writer since

Works
>Mémoires d'Hadrien
>Comme l'eau qui coule
>Sous bénéfice d'inventaire

>>2627458
>>2627494
The description of their style is like the most important part, butterfly bro. C'mon.

James Tiptree Jr (real name Alice Sheldon)
USA
>science fiction author; stories dealt with sexuality, loneliness, spiritual alienation, and death, through the lens of science fiction. the impossibility of overcoming irrational desire; the impossibility for human beings of overcoming death. feminism. committed suicide with her husband at 81.
Works
>Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (short story collection)

>>2627514

I'm always happy to see someone else like her. Memoirs of Hadrian is one of my favs, and is not nearly as well known as it should be.

Amalie Skram
Norway

>Novels concerning marriage, which explored taboo topics such as female sexuality, and the subservient status of women in that period. These works were perceived by many as overly provocative and resulted in open hostility from some segments of society.

>Multi-generation novels, which dealt with the fate of a family over several generations. With these she explored the social institutions and conditions of the time and campaigned for change.

>Mental hospital works such as Professor Hieronimus and Paa St. Jørgen, which dealt with the primitive and brutal conditions of such institutions of the period. Her novels created a major stir in Denmark and precipitated improvements in these institutions.

Works:
>Karens Jul, 1885
>Forraadt (Betrayed), 1892
>To venner (Two Friends), 1888

Pearl S. Buck
USA / China
>Writes alot about collisions between east and west. Historical fiction involving China, Japan, and Korea and stories about peasant life as well as royalty. Pulitzer in 1932 and a Nobel for Literature in 1938 ("for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces".)
Works
>The Good Earth
>The Living Reed
>A shitton of other stuff

A.M. Homes
USA
>childhood, parenthood, sexuality, murder and mayhem

Works
>The End of Alice
>The Safety of Objects (short stories)

>>2627901
Wait....A. M. Holmes is a woman?

Did not know that.

>>2623920
I'm currently reading Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin, that book makes Vincent out to be a huge cunt.

>>2627509
She was American, she just spend some time in the U.K, She's actually from not that far from where I live.

>>2627926
Yep.

Willa Cather
USA
>frontier stuff, good ol days vs. the encroachment of the iron road, early environmental awareness

Works
>O Pioneers! (1913)
>The Song of the Lark (1915)
>My Ántonia (1918)
>A Lost Lady (1923)
>One of Ours (1922), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize

Mary Gaitskill
USA
>short stories, transgressive, freaky-deaky stuff

Works
>Bad Behavior (1988) (short stories)
The short story "Secretary" was the inspiration for the 2002 film of the same name.
>Because They Wanted To (1997) (short stories)

>>2627770
I haven't read them yet. Can you or some else fill that in?

Anne Rice
USA
>Vampire porn and Catholicism apologist.
Works
>Interview with the Vampire (1976)
>The Vampire Lestat (1985)
>The Queen of the Damned (1988)
>Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (2005)
>Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana (2008)
>Memnoch the Devil (1995)
>Merrick (2000)
>The Witching Hour (1990)
>The Mummy (1989)

Margaret Atwood
Canada
>novelist, poet, forest entomologist - basically a regular Canadian
Works
>The Handmaid's Tale
>Cat's Eye
>Alias Grace
>The Blind Assassin
>Oryx and Crake
>Surfacing

>>2629872
wut

Donna Tartt
USA
>Nikolay Gogol impersonator.
Works
>The Secret History (1992)
>The Little Friend (2002)

>>2629874
Just a regular Canadian, eh.

>>2629874
We're better off. In reality, she looks like Jigsaw without the spirals.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Japan
>AKA Banana Yoshimoto, AKA Mahoko Yoshimoto, AKA 吉本 真秀子, AKA Rumiko Takahashi
Works
>Kitchen
>Asleep
>Goodbye Tsugumi
>NP
>Amrita

>>2629872

7/10 would romance.

Saari Nympholsen
Finland
>deep ecologist, ex-patriot communist, mental patient, an advocate of ontological anarchy and introspective violence, she perished in a pyroclastic flow from the eruption of a volcano in Papua New Guinea in 1956 - her photographs of the event survived
Works
>Semantics and Semiotics: The Leaky Tap
>Capillary Beds Rupture
>The Seminal Extraction Handbook

Sasha Grey
USA
>philosopher, critic, theorist, sexual consort
Works
>Neü Sex
>Blog Posts

>>2629927

you have my attention. but I've never heard of this chick - here wikipedia page is entrancing though

wouldwife/10

Anais Nin
France
>mostly erotica
Works
>Delta of Venus
>Diaries
>Spy in the House of Love
>Henry and June

Bonus - would rail forever

>>2629927

HOLY SHIT

>tfw your favourite writer is finally mentioned on /lit/
>tfw you are going to wank to her photo and then read her poetry

>>2629954

need to read real fuckin bad

>>2629954

>yfw this was what was banging her for most of the 30s

;_;

>>2629927

I just finished her book Entrancements - I thought it was to intellectual for /lit/

>>2629927
There's no results for this. Is this a fictitious person or did you write her name wrong?

>>2629964
Out out out!!

>>2629972

Agreed. Her prose is exquisite. Truly, the fools of /lit/ admire everything of their established classics and look no further. Bless your soul.

>>2629927

Get this Kitzo Hekotormos shit out of here

>>2629927

Damn, I haven't heard about this chick in years. I read Capillary Beds in college, blew me away. Good on you, anon.

Amy Tan
USA
>Good melodrama
Works
>Joy Luck Club
>The Kitchen God's Wife
>The Hundred Secret Senses

>>2629990

Her analysis of semiotics and human understanding imo indisputably brilliant. it's a shame academia shunned her and she's no longer widely read

Wow. It's now Thursday and this thread is still going on. I have no problem with this. I am in touch with my feminine side.

Amy Tan
USA
>Good melodrama
Works
>Joy Luck Club
>The Kitchen God's Wife
>The Hundred Secret Senses

>>2629998

It really is a shame. I'm surprised /lit/'s even heard of her. Her deconstruction of causal agents in a post-patriarchal dialect is absurdly resonant. Not to mention everything she's done with her early work in Semiotics. I wish she had a bigger audience here in the states.

>>2629927

I've always wondered who the hell is this chick? Based on the rumors I've heard about her, I would gladly stare into the sun to become blind to all books but her's, if I could truly know her treasures.

I spoke to a prof about her once and all he could give me was fragments of her passages he had stored in memory

>>2630004
Alright already. We get it.

>>2629927
For anyone wondering - that isn't a picture of her. She's sort of a Pynchon type character, pictures of her certainly exist (believe me) but they are pre-internet and can't be found outside books.

>>2630005

I hear the only copies of her first three books are stored away somewhere in Bavaria. Realtalk.

>>2630012

Fuck she's elusive. I hope she never wrote any erotica. Men would no longer need women.

>>2629872

lol 10/10 would give her a full honorary degree

>>2629881
I lol'd. She might be the best writer in this thread though.

>>2630020
No joke? The synopsis to The Secret History always came off a little Oprah's Book Club to me. It's somewhere in my "to-read" list, though, so I'll read it eventually.

Elizabeth Bishop
USA

"The extraordinary thing about Miss Bishop is that she is both a public and a private poet, or perhaps her poetry by its very existence renders obsolete these two after all artificial distinctions (artificial insofar as poetry is concerned). The private self—the quirkiness, the rightness of vision, the special sights and events (a moose, a filling station) that have intrigued Miss Bishop to the point of poetry—melts imperceptibly into the larger utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains rooted in everyday particulars, never sounds ‘grand,’ but is as quietly convincing as everyday speech.” —John Ashbery

>>2629999
I got quads! This beats any female writer doesn't it?

>>2630026
The plot's ludicrous but the writing's superb. I'll spare you the greentext, you know the deal, reading-for-plot/2012...

Mary Wollstonecraft
British
>The original, and best, feminist.
Works
>A Vindication of the Rights of Men
>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
>Mary: A Fiction
>Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

Anonymous 05/07/12(Mon)21:48 No.2624450
>>2623827
I was that person. I was trolling. I wrote that because yes, people like that do exist and it's important to remember that. It's important to remember that most people, when given the chance, become rapists and concentration camp guards. Decency and social equality are very, very fragile things and people that believe in them should never forget they are in a state of constant conflict with everyone else.
>> Anonymous 05/07/12(Mon)21:57 No.2624473
>>2624450
>they are in a state of constant conflict with everyone else

They are in a state of conflict with themselves as much as anyone else. There is no built-in preventative algorithm to keep those who believe in something from contradicting those beliefs when they act. Morals exist in the moment. Everyone has the potential to be a fascist, etc.

"Bravo Bravo, all of the somewhat intellectual shut ins' and invert lezzies of yesterday are wonderful to remember, I love them too. Such enthusiasm...

>>2629927
Is this some kind of joke? Google brings up nothing.

>>2631421
fuck you, Saari Nympholsen is never a joke

Aimee Bender
USA
>latter-day magical realism, sexual surrealism, better short story writer than novelist imo.
Works
>The Girl In The Flammable Skirt
>Willful Creatures
>An Invisible Sign of My Own
>The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake


>>2624574
Good God I want to punch that asshat.

>>2631421

>2012
>Thinking everything beautiful on Earth must be indexed in a database in a server farm somewhere

>>2631460
Well I'm sort of strapped for any other ideas on how to find her books.

An Amazon search yielded this description:
>Laney Parker has a secret. She is completely devoted to her church, but to support herself and her disabled child, she plays the fiddle in an erotic bluegrass band. The women wear overalls and are completely naked underneath. The lead singer wears a codpiece, an item that grows in size as he sings. Jesse Murdoch has a secret too. Born with a Healing Gift, Jesse serves in his father’s church. However, Jesse’s gift has a price; its use requires extreme sensual experiences. When this cost becomes deadly, he flees his parents and becomes Pastor of Laney’s church. Worlds collide when Jesse meets Laney. He must hide his Gift’s price and she must hide the fact that she plays the fiddle onstage with barely a stitch of clothing. When a Hollywood agent discovers the up-and-coming Tennessee Tussle band, and Jesse’s Gift makes greater demands for its use, the jig is up.

>>2631441
its a joke
hes trolling
no google entrée anywhere neither google nor wikipedia shows any information on her
if google nor wikipedia doesnt have it then i suggest the troll to find actual information on her and post it
also the books listed are not mentioned in any book search
conclusion, its a troll and fuck this recommendation
seriously dont fuck around on /lit/ with recommendation

>>2631628
>dont fuck around on /lit/ with recommendation
It's really all we have.

>>2629972
>>2629955
>>2629927
>>2629990
>>2630747
>>2631441

obvious samefag
disregard every single post listed here
samefag trying to troll by complimenting himself with made up author

A question on the monomyth has been plaguing me lately. Can a hero have more than one mentor/guide?

What are your thoughts, /lit/?

>>2630653

>>2631652
You must have missed your thread.
Yes of course you can have more than one. Famous case in point: Luke Skywalker had Obi Wan Kenobi and then Yoda [And then Palpatine's clone, if you count the expanded universe]

Susan Sontag
USA
>Beautiful when young, handsome when old. (Its early here, I can't think of anything else)
Works
>Against Interpretation
>On Photography
>I, Etcetera
>In America
>Volcano Lover

Aemelia Lanyer
Britain, ~1610
>court poet in print, wrote currying favor from the aristocracy. Great metaphors, decent adaptation of Biblical narrative into advocating for women. Often compared to Ben Jonson and contemporaries.
Works
>Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (prefatory sonnets, main narrative, "A Description of Cookeham")

Angela Carter
England
>60's drug-dipped feminist with a lean toward erotic Gothic style. Lush, wordy vocabulary.
Some works to start with
>Shadow Dance
>The Bloody Chamber

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
England, ~1600
>Wrote many of her brother Philip Sidney's translations of the sonnets, prepared his work after her death. Also wrote closet dramas and some of the best translations of Petrarch.
Works
>The Sidney Psalter, Lay of Clorinda, Thenot and Piers, The Tragedy of Antonie, The Triumph of Death

Mechthild von Magdeburg
Germany, 13th c.
>Beguine, Christian mystic, vivid descriptions of hell that influenced Dante; passionate and even erotic, intriguing theology.
Work:
>Das fließende Licht der Gottheit (The Flowing Light of the Godhead)

Bumping a fantastic thread.

>>2633366
>The Bloody Chamber
>Erotic Gothic
OH ANGELA!

Fran Liebowitz
USA
>megadyke humorist with the world's worst case of writers' block. your educated white ethnic dad thinks she's the funniest woman on Earth.
Works
>Metropolitan Life
>Social Studies

Katherine Mansfield (pseudonym of Kathleen Murry [original name: Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp])

New Zealand & England

>Master of the short story
>The most sensitive of all stylists
>Her strongest works are held together by a tension between the infinite plentitude of individual psychologies (which, ironically, are almost invariably guarded and cautious, even against the omniscient narrator), and heavily circumscribed settings (which, ironically, are almost invariably expansive as they serve as the repository of memories for the characters).
>Smokin' hot bod

Selected Works:
>In a German Pension (1911)
>Prelude (1918)
>The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922)

http://chanarchive.org/request_votes

>>2623575

>tfw you thought you had a lot of male authors to read...

>>2634473
She is pretty funny though.

>>2634483
>yfw she was passionately in love with a Maori woman

Xaviera Hollander
All over the place
The Happy Hooker
> changed my life when I was 13

Voltairine de Cleyre
USA
>Anarchist who believed in property rights. (or for a time at least)
Collected works.
>The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader
>he First Mayday: The Haymarket Speeches, 1895–1910
>Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine De Cleyre – Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

>>2634751
>anarchist who believed in property rights

*shudder*

Gloria Steinem
USA
>Noted feminist, journalist (undercover in picture) and activist. Adoptive mother of Christian Bale.
Works
>Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)
>Marilyn: Norma Jean (1986)
>Revolution from Within (1992)

>>2634627
>mon visage quand she was passionately in love with a Maori woman

Huh, I did not know that.

Kanoko Okamoto
Japan
>amazingly dramatic life that ended in her finding Buddhism and having half a dozen men devote their lives to her; later works have overarching Buddhist themes, stories usually concern strained romance or unrequited passion, artistic endeavors like flower arranging and goldfish breeding feature greatly and are always described in detail
Works
>A Riot of Goldfish
>The House Spirit: And Other Stories

Lydia Davis
USA
>Short story writer and translator
>Writes extremely short, odd stories which frequently do not obey conventional prose forms
>Incredibly interesting and rich idiosyncratic style of prose
Works
>Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Sawako Ariyoshi
Japan
>historical fiction usually concerning women throughout history or overlooked groups, like old people; lots of dramatic situations depicted without melodrama, sometimes can seem subtle to the point of mundane, but tends to be striking in the right parts and entirely full of humanity
Works
>The Doctor's Wife
>The Twilight Years

Unica Zurn
Germany
>depressive, surreal and autobiographical; writes about her own psychological collapse and desires, makes use of surrealist techniques and fondness for anagrams, sexually charged and masochistic
Works
>Dark Spring
>The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

Amelia Gray
USA
>grotesque alongside the ordinary, quirky, funny and weird, but never not solidly grounded in life and human relationships; short stories are sometimes very short, less than a page
Works
>AM/PM
>Museum of the Weird

>>2636810
I started reading Threats, but put it down when I realized it was shit.

>>2636822
Yeah, her novel is pretty shit, which is why I didn't put it under Works. Have you read any of her short stories? They go much better with her style, as it doesn't really lend itself to developed or sustained characters and plot. It's much better for the bizarre vignettes she does, though she's definitely an acquired taste.

>>2631445
>The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

This book has a very Californian feel to it without being overt.

>>2636822

I liked this one of hers

http://thediagram.com/8_3/gray.html

George Eliot (real name Mary Anne Evans)
UK
>god tier pastoralism with incredible psychological realist insight
Works
>Mill on the Floss (brought me to tears), Middlemarch

>>2637027
forgot pic
>inb4 she ugly doe

Hannah Arendt
German/American
>Political theorist. Studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger
Works
>The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
>Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)
>On Revolution (1963)

>>2623718
Know how you hate all women b.c. they dont get you? Casue you're a fat piece of shit? But deep down inside you're a fat piece of shit who loves to play video games and jerk off? Well, that's a thing.
pic related. It's you.

>>2637202

> Be Jewish

> Fuck future Nazi

> Defend him after the war

For a philosopher, I am very disappointed in Heidegger in being more interested in protecting his position than saving human lives and dignity.

Bumping great thread - thanks for the recommendations /lit/

Kim Chinquee

Kuzhali Manickavel

Lydia Davis

Lydia Copeland

miranda july

>>2637428
>>2637431
use the template, bros

Lorrie Moore
U.S.
>writer of "humorous and poignant short stories" according to Wikipedia. Pretty witty, comes up with some razor one-liners. I've heard her described as too sad when she's sad, too funny when she's funny.
Works
>Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?
A short novel, I highly recommend it. It's humorous but also highly emotionally-wrought. I'd never felt so many feels before.
>Collected Short Stories

>>2637431
Miranda July
U.S.
>Filmmaker, but released a pretty good volume of short stories a while back. Can you say 'hipster'?
Works
>No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
>It Chooses You - hipster-quest, but has cadenzas of extremely lucid (and frankly very good) prose, particularly a section with the creepy guy.

>>2637428

Kuzhali Manickavel
India
>writer of absurd stories often tinged set in India which gives her work a unique edge
Works
>Insects are Just Like You and Me Except Some of them Have Wings

>>2637693

miranda july is hot, i would destroy that hipster fanny

>>2637693
>dem tiny, bony wrists

This is my fetish.

>>2637693
Miranda July also gets bonus points for being married to Mike Mills.

Shirley Jackson
USA
>Influential mystery, horror author
Works
>The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
>We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
>Numerous short stories

清 少納言
日本
>枕草子

>>2637693
Oh sweet baby Jesus.

Read a few of her stories while on the shitter. Wasn't that impressed.

If you want to read some hipster short stories read, like, Mavis Gallant or something.

Jenna Jameson
USA

Works (Books):
>How to Make Love Like a Porn Star
Woks (Video):
>Too many to count

Rebecca West
UK
>Prodigious journalist in both fiction and non-fiction
Works
>Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941)
>The Return of the Soldier (1918)

>>2637907
I really dislike her films but I have very little bad to say about her writing.

Shirley Hazzard
Australian
Educated expatriate of the sort that typically leaves Australia because the cultural and literary scenes leave much to be desired.
The Transit of Venus
The Great Fire

>>2625699
SOrry but no

Paris Hilton
USA
>total nut job
Works
>Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose

Rachel Maddow
USA
>TV journalist and self described political junkie
Works
>The Rachel Maddow Show
>Drift

>>2638970
You forgot total nut job.

I think this thread jumped the shark a bit.

It still needs to be archived in some way, though.

Patricia Highsmith
U.S.
>Started out as a comic book scriptwriter just out of college (pic related), went on to become a writer of suspense fiction and psychological thrillers in the crime genre, but with an eye towards the literary

Works
>Strangers On A Train
>The Talented Mr. Ripley (one of many, comprising the "Ripliad")

>>2640323
For... liking women? for disliking the drone wars and secret prisons tactic? ...Or for being the political junkie I already mentioned?

>>2640337
There's someone I'm forgetting.. Hold on it'll come to me...
(No, not Naomi. I'm just throwing that in there. Haven't read any of her stuff yet)

>>2639876

I always found her the most profound of female writers.

>>2638970
Full retard with this one right here.

best female reader.

>>2640819
Strangers On a Train!??

I love that movie! Talented Mr Ripley not so much

>>2640841

God-tier Hitchcock.

>Ctrl+F
>No Stephanie Meyer

Lit, do you even read?

> Anne Carson
> Canadian
> MacArthur Fellow
> she writes fucking poems
> Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom love her

Start with Eros the Bittersweet, probably. Then Glass, Irony or God; Autobiography of Red, Beauty of the Husband.

Does top-notch translations of ol' dead greeks like Sappho and some other fags.

>>2640917
Sold.

>>2640874
Quit bitching and do it Anon!

>>2640937

>quit bitching and do it

says the man who convinced me to delete my Ann Coulter post. for shame.

>>2640947
I'm only prompting him to contribute. And are you seriously subbing over Coulter? Please tell me you know she's a crank.

Name: Ursula K. LeGuin
Nation: USA

>Science Fiction and fantasy dealing with deeply human and relevant issues, such as sexuality, religion, politics, anarchism, ethnography and gender.
>total hottie (pic related)

Works: The Dispossessed (perosnal favorite), The Lathe of Heaven, Earthsea (series)

Ursula K. Le Guin
USA
>Science fiction/fantasy writer. Went to high school with PKD. Still alive.
Works
>The Dispossessed
>The Left Hand of Darkness
>Tales from Earthsea

>>2640986

She's a glorious crank, which is why I posted her. The crankest of cranks. And I really don't care, just thought it was funny

>>2641035
She was insightful enough to know the GOP will lose without Christie... Not that Christie would have won

>>2641045

he probably wouldn't have... but thank god he didn't try... there's always a chance

Liliana Ursu
Romania
>poet, powerful, mythical or detailing the everyday, occasionally an erotic or meditative mood, often concerns the pursuit of something and the feeling of being ostracized
Works
>Angel Riding a Beast
>Lightwall
>The Sky Behind the Forest

>>2640917
my man

>>2641062
Fumiko Enchi
Japan
>historical fiction about women, generally those in bad marriages; characters are despicable, conniving, abused, and always entirely real; engrossing, dramatic stories with historical accuracy (or with Masks, excellent use of historical motifs)
Works
>The Waiting Years
>Masks
>A Tale of False Fortunes

Anna Kavan
Britain
>dreamy and surreal, focuses on mental illness, alienation and addiction; disturbing and psychological stories
Works
>Asylum Piece
>Ice
>Who Are You?

This thread won't die and I love it.

It'd also make a nice reference for the future.
Archive?

Jenny Erpenbeck
Germany
>novellas and short stories usually dealing with life and extreme loss under horrible conditions/countries; very dark, disturbing and eerie stories
Works
>The Book of Words
>The Old Child and Other Stories
>Visitation

Bertha Pappenheim
Germany
>one of Freud's cases as Anna O.; a feminist and social worker who wrote fairy tales, plays, aphorisms and translations; fairy tales are also for adults and parallel psychological treatments and darker themes like guilt and death
Works
>In the Junk Shop and Other Stories

Magda Szabó
Hungary
>compelling and personable story-telling style, books about relationships between women and family tragedies; one of Hungary's most popular female authors
Works
>The Door
>Katalin Street
>Night of the Pig-Killing

Luisa Valenzuela
Argentina
>feminist, experimental and sometimes absurd, often uses mystery and darker thriller type plots tinged with satire and stylish sensuality
Works
>The Lizard's Tail
>Dark Desires and the Others
>He Who Searches

>>2641142
Where to start with her? My interest has been piqued.

>>2641461
The Old Child and Other Stories. I usually recommend starting out with an author's short story collection first, to get the best and most varied taste of their work.

>>2641466
Thanks, hombre. Written down, and now I'm off to bed.

Park Kyung-ni
Korea
>know for her enormous and popular historical epic covering the history of Korea during the 1800 and 1900s; isolation, the value of trust and love, and the struggle to maintain human dignity and overcome suffering are main themes
Works
>Toji/The Land

Alright /lit/, I made this image version of all the serious and mostly serious recs done in the thread. I know we can always link to the thread in the archive, but I thought it would be nice to keep an image version handy too.

I'll keep adding to it as more authors are recommended, so keep them coming !

part one

>>2641576
part two, still in progress as the thread progresses

>>2641578
>>2641576

great work, anon. thanks. saved.

Ann Quin
Britain
>extremely experimental, satirical and absurd, often sexual, violent and playful with language; greatly influenced by Woolf, drowned herself at a young age
Works
>Berg
>Passages
>Three

>>2623603

>yfw the Japanese title of Emily of New Moon is 'Kawaii Emily'

Megan Boyle
U.S.
>Tao Lin's former waifu, poet, quesadilla enthusiast
Works
>Blaahhhhh
>Mehhhhhh
>Collected Gmail Chats

>8 day old thread on page 0

it's better to put the sick horse down than to watch it suffer, moot.

>>2642587
If you can't think of anyone why say anything?

>>2642557
If you can't think of anyone why say anything?

>>2623633
Because she deserves a pictured post:
Astrid Lindgren
Sweden
>One of the worlds most translated authors, children books writer, deals with fantasy in one way or another and usually about children finding their identity and accepting themselves for who they are, strong anti-fascist, Pippi Longstocking is widely considered to be one of the best books of the 20th century, quite dark books for children books some even deals with death and suicide
Works
>Pippi Longstocking
>Brother Lionheats

Mary Shelly
British
Works
>Frankenstein
>Mathilda
>Valperga

Harriet Beecher Stowe
USA
>Stowe is honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on July 1.
Works
>The Mayflower; or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters Among the Descendants of the Pilgrims (1834)
>Mark Meriden (1841)
>Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
>A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853)
>Little Pussy Willow (1870)

Aphra Behn
British
Works
>Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684)
>Oroonoko (1688)
>The Emperor of the Moon (1687)

Elizabeth Gaskell
British
Works
>North and South

Marguerite Duras
Vietnamese/French
>I have no idea where to start, with translations or anything. Someone just mentioned her. Dang.
Works
>L'Amant)
>Moderato Cantabile
>Hiroshima mon amour
>Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein

>>2642557
>looks like an HIV-ridden transsexual hooker in drag

go to bed, Mr.T

Magdalena Tulli
Poland
>experimental, often using unusual points of view and focusing on cities and towns themselves as characters; hallucinatory and metaphysical prose style
Works
>Moving Parts
>In Red
>Dreams and Stones

Park Wan-suh
Korea
>deals with the oppressed, generally women, and tragic events; a political and sometimes hilariously sardonic writer, deeply entrenched in Korean concerns and folklore
Works
>The Naked Tree
>Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

Elaine Dundy
USA
>stylish romantic comedy works with reckless and exuberant heroines having tons of ridiculous fun; clever and witty, sometimes bordering on the farcical, but overall a thoroughly entertaining style
Works
>The Dud Avacado
>The Old Man and Me

Tatyana Tolstaya
Russia
>magical realism/postmodernism, eccentric characters, lots of her stories read like stylistic fairy tales, she "writes of lonely children and lost love, of philosophers of the absurd and poets working as janitors, of angels and halfwits."
Works
>The Slynx
>White Walls: Collected Stories

bump

>>2642557

sucks ass. most alt lit sucks ass

Mina Loy
Britain
>"an artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurist, actress, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps, and bohemian;" wrote avant-garde love poetry, criticisms on Futurism, modern fairy tales, a novel-length study of a fellow surrealist, commentary on aesthetics, ballets - an extremely varied writer and person
Works
>Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems
>Stories and Essays of Mina Loy
>Insel

>>2624547
Came here for Carson. Was not dissapoint.

Petra Hulova
Czech Republic
>popular young Czech novelist who writes mostly family sagas; only work translated into English concerns three generations of women in a family dealing with contemporary Mongolian society
Works
>All This Belongs to Me

I've yet to see a single writer.

1/10

Apply yourselves.

>>2645533

So she rambled on about about something she knows something about. Great.

PULITZER OF THE YEAR ALL YEARS!

Flannery O'Connor

Her short stories are the shit!

>>2645439

This.

Bitch.

Here.

Awesome, just.. awesome. But it was another age. Women such as this have gone the way of Dinosaurs.

Djuna Barnes
USA
>works read like elegant prose poetry, a beautiful if dense and sometimes difficult style, decadent and sexual and striking
>T.S. Eliot proclaimed her roman à clef Nightwood "so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it."
Works
>Nightwood
>Collected Stories
>The Antiphon

Karen Blixen aka Isak Dinesen
Denmark
New romanticism, gothic, fairy tale-ish, apparently snubbed of a Nobel prize according to Hemingway and some other guys from the Swedish academy
>Babette's Feast
>Out of Africa
>Seven Gothic Tales

Anecdotes of Destiny is a pretty good compilation.

>>2645557
She also wrote both in English and Danish indifferently so you don't have to worry about crappy translations.

>>2645555
Just recently I've read Nightwood, loved it.

>>2645546
She was mentioned 4 times before your post, bro. KEEP UP.

Shocked to not find Martha Gellhorn here yet.
>American war reporter. Wrote of the horrors of war better than most men and with complete lack of gushiness.
Here she is with my main man Ernie.

>>2645588

Mustache Hemingway was so unfortunate.

>>2645588

What word of hers would you recommend?

>>2645600
The Face of War's pretty good. She's done novels as well but I haven't read them.

>>2645542
>>2645544
God damn the butthurt in these posts.

Sadako Kurihara
Japan

>survivor of the atomic bombs, most well-known works are her poetry relating to the atomic bombs
>Black Eggs, her first collection, was heavily censored by the American Occupation Censorship because it realistically/graphically described the aftermath of the atomic bombs
>also censored because she was an advocate of the Japanese government taking responsibility for Japanese war crimes

Works
>When We Say Hiroshima: Selected Poems
>Black Eggs: Poems (get an edition published after 1986, otherwise they are censored)

One of my favorite poems:

When we say "Hiroshima,"
do people answer, gently,
"Ah, Hiroshima"?
Say "Hiroshima,"
and hear "Pearl Harbor"
Say "Hiroshima,"
and hear, "Rape of Nanjing."
Say "Hiroshima,"
and hear women and children in Manila
thrown into trenches, doused with gasoline,
and burned alive.
Say "Hiroshima,"
and hear echoes of blood and fire.
To hear 'Ah, Hiroshima,'
we first must
wash the blood
off our own hands.

This thread is great, /lit/.

bump

>>2645775
<3
Looks like she's still censored! This is the only picture of her I could find.

Dorothy Parker
USA

>American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles.

Works
>Complete Poems
>Complete Stories

bump

I would only bang a few of the women in these pictures in this WHOLE thread! Most of them are plain or downright ugly, and people are asking to have this thread archived? Well, /lit/ truly is terrible nowadays.

>>2647639
Uh… this is /lit/, they’re authors.
Not models. The point is not whether or not you find them hot or bangable.

>>2647640
Are you trying to be funny or something?

jk rowling, and also stephenie meyer and suzanne collins

skimmed thread for this pic, saw it wasn't posted. wtf /lit/?

>>2647699
No, I’m not.
Where in OP is it mentioned that they have to be hot? It’s just a thread about female writers.
So shut up, nerd.

>>2629881

Looks like the world's most evil librarian.

>>2623617

Am I the only one finds her an angelic beauty? At least on this pic

>>2647708
Who is this??

Childish trolling attempts guys

>>2647750
-> >>2623592

>>2647735
Google Nikolay Gogol

>>2647735
>>2647735

>Am I the only one finds her an angelic beauty?

Yes, she was an absolute pig

>At least on this pic

I think it was the only one she ever took where she didn't look like a complete beast. Even in that pic she's a 2/10 would not bang.

Horribly bourgeois writer as well, in my opinion.

>>2647767

>ugh that pic

Yeah, you are probably right

Who is the most attractive female writer anyway?

>>2647786
>Who is the most attractive female writer anyway?

Patty Highsmith (mai waifu)

>>2647786

Highsmith is OK, but she's no Eliette Abbecassis.

Margaret Laurence
Canada
>intriguing, very real characters viewed from different perspectives
> most of her stuff plays in the same fictional town, somewhat like Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha county, same set of people
WORKS
>The Diviners
>The Stone Angel
>The Fire-Dwellers

Are Jane Austen's novel interesting without being a feminist sympathizer? Usually the backflaps seems pretty interesting but then they had to stress the feminist undertones...

>>2647881

>I am afraid of women

>>2647897
There are people who are afraid of women? I don't understand.

>>2647881
There aren't that many feminist undertones in her work, honestly. Modern critics just like to stress things like that becasue she was a woman writer

>>2647907

>becasue she was a woman writer

Pic related: It's Becca-Sue. I never knew she was a writer though.

Sylvia Plath is the cutest by far.
:3

>>2640840

>>2647767
She looks exactly how you imagine a bookish chick would -that's to say not bad, but, well, you know.

>Horribly bourgeois writer as well, in my opinion.
Okay, you might have something there.

>>2647829
She is prime waifu material. but let's keep that whole "waifu" shit on /tv/. I would be crestfallen if it intruded /lit/ to the same degree.

>>2647148
Alas, how did I not post my love earlier?

>>2629793

>recommending stuff you haven't read

get a load of this guy

Sylvia Plath and Carson McCullers get my vote for cutest fem writers, though Carson's extremely boyish look might not be everyone's cup of tea.

I'd bang all of them. Especially the feminist writers. I love me a feminist bitch.

Vernon Lee
Britain
>pseudonym of Violet Paget, a fin de siecle writer who wrote supernatural tales, essays, works on aesthetics, literary criticism, art, music and travel
Works
>Hauntings. Fantastic Stories
>The Beautiful. An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
>Phantom Lover: A Fantastic Story

Alright, since we're no longer bumping and there are enough authors, here's the second completed part of that recommendations chart.

Anita Loos
USA
>was an American screenwriter, playwright, author and actress, best known for her blockbuster comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Works
>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of A Professional Lady. 1926
>But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes 1928

>ctrl + f
>no grace paley
>ISHYGDDT.jpg

American.
not very prolific but intense, she housed andrea dworkin after some protesters raped in jail thing, scorns plot and is just incredibly compelling and creepily detached, even in describing medical difficulties during two abortions she had in a row.
Collected Stories. Essays.

:') Great thread.