/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2798564]

Who is your favorite female author?

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2798567]

Currently Susan Jacoby.
Good stuff.

[Anonymous No.2798576]

>dat image

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2798592]

>>2798576
>Objects to image
>Posts his vomit image
What tards these mortals be.

[Anonymous No.2798597]

Holy shit, what the fuck is going on that persons's mind? I'm truly puzzled.

[Anonymous No.2798602]

facebook screencaps? is it 2010?

[Anonymous No.2798613]

>>2798592

And whats wrong with that?

[Anonymous No.2798615]

>>2798597
Read her wall.

http://www.facebook.com/ThisClose.ToEscape

[Anonymous No.2798624]

>>2798615

[Anonymous No.2798625]

>>2798615

So... Why does she do that?

[Anonymous No.2798630]

>>2798625

this might blow your mind but occasionally there are crazy and/or ill informed people on social networking websites

[Anonymous No.2798645]

On topic:

I read Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier a while ago. While it is by far not one of my favorite novels or anything, I actually enjoyed some parts of the novel. Sure it was chick lit and sometimes the main character was really annyoing, some things in the novel were done pretty well.

Since it is the only novel I read by a woman, as far as I can remember, I am gonna name her. Probably gonna read some Woolf soon though.

[Anonymous No.2798652]

Barbara Comyns, Tove Jansson, Leonora Carrington and Olga Tokarczuk are a few of my favorites.

[Anonymous No.2798655]

>>2798652

reading house of fear by leonora carrington right now -- "the debutante" is maybe the best story ever about a face eating hyena

[Anonymous No.2798681]

Jennifer Egan and Ayn Rand. Egan has been a revelation, I'd reccommend starting with A Visit From the Goon Squad and then reading Invisible Circus. She has an uncanny talent when conveying emotions, painting vivid pictures of moments from personal histories laced with melancholy and longing. Her prose can shake you through the foundations and make you think not only about what the book's about but also how's it written (she has a knack for weaving misplaced episodes in time and arranging them in seamless yet non-chronological order).

Ayn Rand I didn't read further than Fountainhead (yet), however I found that book very inspirational, with all its half-baked political/philosophical pamphletism and pervading masochism. It's full of spirit and that's not something you encounter often in literature that's also unflinchingly verbose.

Do read Egan, dear anons, I implore you.

[Anonymous No.2798689]

>>2798615
>a question for anyone who has silicon implants/silicon injections or who knows someone who does...
>How much land do you own?

THIS SHIT IS HILARIOUS

[Anonymous No.2798693]

Currently my favorite female author is Zadie Smith, without a doubt.

I just finished On Beauty and it was wonderful, on par with even her White Teeth, perhaps. Plus she's gorgeous, in my opinion. Looking forward to her novel coming out later this year.

[Anonymous No.2798697]

[Anonymous No.2798698]

>>2798630
>>2798625
>>2798597
I've been following Molly's LJ for a few years. She is flat out crazy. I think she's a paranoid schizophrenic. She hears voices talking about her. She's been off her meds for awhile now. It's too bad because she was an interesting artist. She created this piece "Mechanical Womb with Clockwork Fetus" right around the time she went off her meds. I don't see that she's done anything of this scope since.

Back on topic, Leslie Marmon Silko is my favorite female author. Ceremony was great and I'm 3/4ths of the way through Almanac for the Dead.

In poetry, I'm a fan of Sharon Olds.

>>2798652
Oh yes and Tove Jannson.

[Anonymous No.2798705]

>>2798630
>she doesn't genderfuck

Does Edith Stein count? Christian phenomenology lel

[Anonymous No.2798707]

>>2798693
how would you describe her writing style and themes? i usually spot her books on the schlock shelves, with awful covers and cringeworthy blurbs so i'm prejudiced towards picking them up.

[Anonymous No.2798711]

>>2798707
This. I just seen On Beauty at my local used bookstore ,but hesitated to similar reasons

[Anonymous No.2798716]

>>2798707
>>2798711
White Teeth as I remember it (it's been about three years since I've read it) deals wonderfully with modern ideas concerning racial integration and the ways in which the past influences the present. No matter what one gets from it, it's wonderfully written and entertaining.

On Beauty concerns again the different sides of racial integration while taking things far enough to also examine interracial marriages and families. It also (perhaps more prominently) deals with the clash between the world of academia and the world of regular, middle class average Joes.

No matter how you approach her brief bibliography, her works are enjoyable and often hilarious, in my opinion. She's kind of like a modern female Dickens in a world where race and class and intellect are significant themes.

[Anonymous No.2798723]

Just confirming, Neil Gaiman is indeed one smokin' hot chick.

[Anonymous No.2798733]

>>2798716
Now I am kicking myself for not picking that up. Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.2798734]

>>2798723
does anyone have that picture of gaiman in a cemetary

fucking hell man

I can't take this nigga seriously anymore

The Sandman was fun.

[Anonymous No.2798736]

>>2798734
?

[Anonymous No.2798738]

>>2798733
Yeah man. I literally finished On Beauty last night and I laughed out loud at least 4 times while reading it.

There was one part that I literally laughed uncontrollably at. One of the main characters, Howard, who is married to a black woman who works a normal job at a hospital, is an art history professor at a leading liberal arts university. There's a part near the end where he's at some fancy faculty/student dinner with a student (who is significant in ways that I can't post lest I reveal spoilers), a dinner he only agreed to accompany her to under the condition that there would be no glee club performances. Well, turns out, there IS a glee club performance, and Howard Belsey is way too drunk to handle the pressure of such a situation. The way he handles it and his total outburst of absurdity is worth the several hundred pages leading up to it for sure.

[Anonymous No.2798742]

E. L. James. That nigga can right. She is like Suzanne Collins for adults.

[Anonymous No.2798743]

>>2798742
1/10

[Anonymous No.2798825]

>>2798734

As much as I like Neil, he is pretty over-rated. He is best with things that have pictures.

[Molly Freidrich No.2798848]

Check your cis privilege.

[Anonymous No.2798901]

>>2798693
>Zadie Smith

da fuq? White Teeth was waffling garbage

[Anonymous No.2798914]

>female author

[Anonymous No.2798915]

>>2798914

>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.2799017]

>>2798848

Check your malformed vajayjay

[Anonymous No.2799023]

The only female authors I can stand reading are Mary Shelley(very good) and Emily Bronte(okay).
I do owe a debt to Jane Austen though, three years ago I decided to read Sense and Sensibility, and the fact that I finished that book made me realise there is nothing in the world I can't do.

[Anonymous No.2799039]

>>2798825
He, or in this thread she, I very hit-and-miss. I remember reading Smoke and Mirrors, which had a lot of shit stories, but also amazing ones like Murder Mysteries, Looking For the Girl and We can Get Them for You Wholesale

[Anonymous No.2799084]

Plath
Oates
All of the Brontes

I can't pick one out of that bunch.

[Anonymous No.2799089]

>>2799023
Have you tried Joan Didion?

[Anonymous No.2799093]

Robin Hobb's pretty cool. She knows how to write a male, and there's nary unnecessary social drama or romance in her Fool's and Assassin's series.

[Anonymous No.2799095]

HD
Seriously, read 'Her'.

[Anonymous No.2799100]

>>2799089
No but I'm reading a bit about her online now that you mentioned her, and I'm willing to give it a go. What's her best work? A novel preferably

[Anonymous No.2799104]

>>2799100
Her novels are her worst works. Her earlier essays are her best works. Salvadore, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, etc.

[Anonymous No.2799487]

>Alice Munro
because I've never seen her mentioned here
>also Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Toni >Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, and Joan Didion

[Anonymous No.2799492]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Amy Levy.

[Anonymous No.2799495]

>>2799104
I actually really like her novel Play It as It Lays.

[Anonymous No.2799498]

Shirley fucking Jackson

[Anonymous No.2799504]

AYN RAND

[Anonymous No.2799506]

Ali Smith. Alice Munro is an honourable second.
I've only read some poetry and The Blind Assassin, but Atwood is pretty cool too.

[Anonymous No.2799507]

>No Hannah Arendt