[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 1.25 MB, 800x1018, Joan-Didion-S-W-collage.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21803552 No.21803552 [Reply] [Original]

>women can't wri-

>> No.21803555

>>21803552
Op can't get triples

>> No.21803576

>>21803555
kek. Also lesbians don't count

>> No.21803579

>>21803552
rite fiction, but they sure can write memoirs and essays about how hard it is to be a white woman.

>> No.21803663
File: 736 KB, 1697x1335, rolf_tietgens-patricia_highsmith-1942-age-21.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21803663

Women writers have...multiple skills.

>> No.21803667
File: 116 KB, 750x937, sylvia-plath-bikini.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21803667

>> No.21803670
File: 35 KB, 250x365, Clarice Lispector.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21803670

>women can't wri- ACK!

>> No.21803673
File: 767 KB, 1080x1345, flannery-o-connor-lit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21803673

>> No.21803674

>>21803552
-ght

>> No.21803682

>>21803673
But she's reading Baudelaire?

>> No.21803686

Imagine if people tried to get you to read Melville by posting pictures of his arms or something.

>> No.21803694

>>21803682
she can read whatever she wants as long as she'll be my lit waifu

>> No.21803718

>>21803552
>>21803673
Feet

>> No.21803719
File: 102 KB, 320x480, mieko-kawakami-1-lit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21803719

>> No.21803721

>>21803667
Oh fuck, this is doing things to me. Help.

>> No.21803723
File: 137 KB, 1176x1762, sarah-andersen-lit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21803723

>> No.21803726

>>21803552
>>21803663
Those are different women, autist. How faceblind are you?

>> No.21803729
File: 42 KB, 434x260, sylvia-plath.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21803729

>>21803721
Help is on the way!

>> No.21803731

>>21803729
Hnnnggg

thank you fren

>> No.21803734
File: 7 KB, 213x237, mm.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21803734

>>21803719

>> No.21803738
File: 123 KB, 1024x934, hemingway-shotgun.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21803738

>>21803686
Does this make you want to read Hemingway?

>> No.21803742

>>21803726
Yeah, I know...the names in the filename are different, too. Not that you noticed.
>>21803731
I love my job.

>> No.21804373

Does Didion, in your opinion, transcends boring boomer takes about 60' and 70's? I had enough of that. Does she have anything to offer to a young person reading today? Is she really a great stylist?

>> No.21804384

>Femanon psyops thread

Why women are allowed to post here? Did they have their own imagineboard to post? CrystalCafe? Why they need to post on male imagineboard? Why they can't live without male attention? Are women incapable to live without men or alone? Bros, explain this phenomenon.

>> No.21804611

>>21804373
I think she has a great and distinctive style, sure. Haven't read any of her fiction, but Slouching Toward Bethlehem and The White Album are two of the better essay collections I've read. She has a very sharp critical eye and ear and I like her take on living in California during the death of the hippie movement.

>> No.21804737

>>21803555
czeched

>> No.21804738

>>21804611
>I like her take on living in California during the death of the hippie movement.
Post-mortems on that period are always fascinating, whether they hit the mark or not. Does she hit the mark?

>> No.21804739

>>21803552
FEET

>> No.21804741

>>21804738
Well she's not writing a post-mortem so much as an account of the movement in its death throes, and she does a great job at placing it in a specific historical context. Just read the essay Slouching Toward Bethlehem and see if you like it; the thing's only like 20 pages.

>> No.21804744

>>21804741
I'll try it, I liked HST's take and other writers slip it in occasionally.

>> No.21804838

>>21804744
Her take is similar to his; it shares that same worldly cynicism that you can only really get from having "been there" as it were. Like she's openly disdainful of Joan Baez and a lot of the Haight Ashbury scene as being sun-addled space cases. I would argue Slouching Toward Bethlehem is like Thompson's "where the wave rolled back" passage from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but expanded to 40ish pages.

>> No.21804900
File: 151 KB, 800x1195, destructive-generation.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21804900

>>21804738
>post-mortems on that period

>> No.21804910

>>21803576
Men will really use any convoluted argument to avoid admitting that a woman, any woman, has talent. Even though, if anything, a lesbian is probably the ultimate woman, in that she refuses alterity.

>> No.21804911

>>21804910
source?

>> No.21804920

>>21803576
Lesbians tend to be philistines. Look at K D Lang and Sontag.

>> No.21804921

>>21804910
Where did you see an argument of authority in my post? I'm just thinking out loud. Although there really is no novelty at all in the take that homosexuality is a love so profound for sameness it transforms into a rejection of otherness

>> No.21804925

>>21804921
>>21804911
meant to quote you, i guess i too am too deep into rejecting otherness

>> No.21804929
File: 39 KB, 996x202, Screen Shot 2023-03-19 at 10.21.09 AM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21804929

>>21804925
whomst've?

>> No.21804934

>>21804929
I meant to quote the guy asking for source, i quoted myself again in the second post because the irony of me making this mistake in the first place, considering the topic, is funny.

>> No.21805019

>>21803738
not really