Female Authors

[Anonymous No.9924179]

Who is your favourite and why? Post favourite work by said author. Could be prose or poetry...

[Anonymous No.9924192]

The Germanium and Parker's Back are two of my favorite stories by Flannery O'Connor. Both focus intently on the titular item, which is her schtick, but the first has a "tidy" ending which underscores her point while the latter is messy, ambiguous, and equally poignant. The two show the growth as a writer and bookend her career.

[Anonymous No.9924200]

Just realized that out of my entire book collection the only female author is Emily Dickenson's poetry. Am I a bigot?

[Anonymous No.9924223]

>>9924200
>Actually owning a book by a female author
Lol.

[Anonymous No.9924227]

the bible

[Anonymous No.9924281]

I like Millay's sonnets

If I should learn, in some quite casual way,
That you were gone, not to return again-
Read from the back-page of a paper, say,
Held by a neighbor in a subway train,
How at the corner of this avenue
And such a street (so are the papers filled)
A hurrying man-who happened to be you-
At noon to-day had happened to be killed,
I should not cry aloud-I could not cry
Aloud, or wring my hands in such a place-
I should but watch the station lights rush by
With a more careful interest on my face,
Or raise my eyes and read with greater care
Where to store furs and how to treat the hair.

[Anonymous No.9924290]

I'll keep it classic and say Jane Austen. "Emma" is my favorite work of hers.

[Anonymous No.9924308]

George Eliot, with Middlemarch as my favourite. What remains of Sappho is up there for me as well.

[Anonymous No.9924317]

>>9924200
You kept the best, anon. The letters are hilarious too, if (you) haven't read them yet.

[Anonymous No.9924335]

Women should stick to children's books, honestly.
Enid Blyton is a saint

[Anonymous No.9924503]

I don't think I've read a book by a woman since I read To Kill A Mockingbird when I was fifteen. What should I read? I was thinking Wuthering Heights.

[Anonymous No.9924506]

>>9924179
what?

[Anonymous No.9924544]

Yoko Ogawa - Hotel Iris, The Diving Pool
Anna Kavan - Ice
Helen DeWitt - The Last Samurai
Ursula LeGuin - The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, Four Ways to Forgiveness
Marguerite Yourcenar - Hadrian's Memoirs

[Anonymous No.9924553]

>>9924503
Wise Blood by O'Connor, its pretty good

[Anonymous No.9924561]

>>9924200
Buy Woolf. "Mrs Dalloway", "Monday or Tuesday" and "To the Lighthouse" are great starters.

[Anonymous No.9924618]

>>9924200
No

[Anonymous No.9924624]

>>9924179
Flannery O'Connor is the best female writer out there.
Elizabeth Anscombe is a top tier philosopher.

[Anonymous No.9925431]

>>9924200
Not owning many books by female writers doesnt make you a bigot, but you should try to read more, see for yourself if the "women are bad writers" meme is true. (it's not)

[Anonymous No.9925512]

>>9925431
very true bro, i can name plenty of examples of writers whose prose and literary acumen is on the same level of dosto, kafka, cioran, musil and cioran

[Anonymous No.9925522]

>>9924179
Murasaki Shikibu. She's my favorite because her novel, The Tale of Genji, gives an exquisite picture of a courtly life in a fascinating medieval society, with myriad love affairs, complicated lives, and shifting political fortunes

[Anonymous No.9925774]

>>9924624
This.

[Anonymous No.9926857]

Tommy Pincone in a dress.

[Anonymous No.9927051]

>>9926857
He's seen the documentary I see. How'd you like those creepy webmasters? You're not one of them, are ya kid?

[Anonymous No.9927067]

Woolf. To the LIghthouse

[Anonymous No.9927075]

[Anonymous No.9927078]

>>9924179
Shakespeare or Homer

[Anonymous No.9927087]

>>9924290
>not Mansfield Park

wew

[Anonymous No.9927095]

>>9927075
millkiiiieeesss, mmaaaammmeeee, milky, milky, o'
so silky.

[Anonymous No.9927122]

>>9924179
what THE FUCK

[Anonymous No.9927778]

Virginia Woolf with The Waves, Betty Smith with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

[Anonymous No.9927817]

I've been boycotting non male authors ever since the women only screenings of Wonder Woman.

Can't say I miss them.

[Anonymous No.9927824]

Zadie Smith I guess

[Anonymous No.9927831]

Graduating from college was bittersweet. I will miss the all night weed and philosophy or politics bullshit sessions me and my friends had but I also remember thinking, "I never have to read another female author again" with a great sigh of relief.

[Anonymous No.9927867]

>>9927824
>Favourite female author
>Zadie Smith

[Anonymous No.9927954]

>>9924308
imagine if Daniel Deronda just skipped all of the Jewish nonsense

not even an antisemite (ironically or otherwise) but that'd be my favorite Eliot

[Anonymous No.9927968]

Ayn rand. When i picked up thr fountainhead i couldnt put it down for a week. I was sick and was reading 100+ pages a day despite my rediculous headache and fever.

[Anonymous No.9927973]

>>9924179

Clarice Lispector

[Anonymous No.9927979]

Banana Yoshimoto

[Anonymous No.9928001]

>>9927979
Tell me more about her. I'm assuming you are the guy who dropped her name in the Murakami/Japanese lit thread.

[Anonymous No.9928005]

>>9924179

Beauvoir's "Ethics of Ambiguity." It's a great continuation and supplement to Being and Nothingness. I'd suggest being familiar with Sartre's ontology beforehand, but it's a great read about transition from childhood into adulthood and the responsibility of freedom nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.9928016]

>>9928005
is this a mommy porn book

[Anonymous No.9928023]

Anne Sexton. She had sex a ton. Heh.

[Anonymous No.9928024]

>>9928016

12 Chinamen or "Ethics"?

[Anonymous No.9928029]

>>9928024
12 chinamen

[Anonymous No.9928038]

>>9924179
It took me a lot longer than I would have thought to find one, but Patricia Highsmith.

[Anonymous No.9928040]

Why does Marguerite Duras looks either 10 or 60 in all pictures?

[Anonymous No.9928102]

>>9927075
dam, she writes books??

[Anonymous No.9928177]

>>9924179
Ayn Rand

[Anonymous No.9928205]

>>9928177
I came here to see if anyone else was going to post this. 10/10 choice

[Anonymous No.9928286]

3 of my absolute favorite books:
Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus
Nicola Griffith - Hild
Joanna Rose - Little Miss Strange

[Anonymous No.9928309]

>>9925431
I’m just not interest in what they write about or what they have to say.

[Anonymous No.9928604]

>>9927122

[Anonymous No.9928621]

>>9924179
>best
Shelley
Yourcenar
LeGuin
Dickinson
Christie

If you haven't read all that shit already you're a fag.

[Anonymous No.9929018]

Hannah Arendt is good.

[Anonymous No.9929086]

>>9928604
what? that's crazy!

[Anonymous No.9929087]

Sara Ahmed

[Anonymous No.9929212]

Sylvia Plath

[Anonymous No.9930784]

Your mom op

[Anonymous No.9930823]

>>9929087
Ewwww

[Anonymous No.9930967]

Muriel Spark is cool.

[Anonymous No.9931041]

The only female authors I recall reading are
Mary Shelly
Daphne Du Maurier
Ayn Rand
Audrey Niffenegger (Time Traveler's Wife)

I enjoyed them all

[Anonymous No.9932199]

>>9929212
Good choice.

[Anonymous No.9932232]

>>9924192
Thank you for your recommendation.

[Anonymous No.9932731]

>>9928309
What is it you believe they write about?

[Anonymous No.9933151]

>>9924179
Rupi Kaur, of course.

[Anonymous No.9933153]

Taylor Swift is an unhealthy obsession.. get help

[Anonymous No.9933319]

>>9933153
>I was only 9 years old
>I loved Taylor Swift so much, I had all the merchandise and movies
>I pray to Taylor Swift every night before bed, thanking her for the songs I’ve been given
>"Taylor Swift is love" I say; “Taylor Swift is life”
>My dad hears me and calls me a Swiftie
>I know he was just jealous of my devotion for Taylor Swift
>I called him a cunt
>He slaps me and sends me to go to sleep
>I’m crying now, and my face hurts
>I lay in bed and it’s really cold
>Suddenly, a warmth is moving towards me
>It’s Taylor Swift
>I am so happy
>She whispers into my ear "It's a love story, baby just say yes"
>She lays me on the floor
>I’m ready
>She takes of my clothes
>She straddles me
>It hurts so much but I do it for Taylor Swift
>I can feel myself getting tenser as I try not to explode
>She rides me like a crazy cowgirl
>I want to please Taylor Swift
>She roars in a mighty roar as she writhes in ecstasy
>My dad walks in
>Taylor Swift looks him straight in the eyes and says "Oh, oh"
>Taylor Swift leaves through my window
>Taylor Swift is love. Taylor Swift is life.

[Anonymous No.9933962]

>>9933319
Fuck outta this board, dicklet

- Tommy P

[Anonymous No.9934878]

>>9933962
t. dicklet

[Anonymous No.9934883]

>>9933319
I was expecting everybody to walk the dinossaur. I'm getting too old for this :(

[Anonymous No.9936475]

bump

[Anonymous No.9936902]

>>9928309
Women write the best relationships, and broken men.

[Anonymous No.9937410]

i haven't read anything great written by women but here in BR people talk a lot about lispector