Female Authors

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.

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

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

the bible

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

>>9924179
what?

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

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

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

>>9924200
No

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

>>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)

>>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

>>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

>>9924624
This.

Tommy Pincone in a dress.

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

Woolf. To the LIghthouse

>>9924179
Shakespeare or Homer

>>9924290
>not Mansfield Park

wew

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

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>>9924179
what THE FUCK

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

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

Can't say I miss them.

Zadie Smith I guess

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.

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>>9927824
>Favourite female author
>Zadie Smith

>>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

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.

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>>9924179

Clarice Lispector

Banana Yoshimoto

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

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>>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.

>>9928005
is this a mommy porn book

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Anne Sexton. She had sex a ton. Heh.

>>9928016

12 Chinamen or "Ethics"?

>>9928024
12 chinamen

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

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

>>9927075
dam, she writes books??

>>9924179
Ayn Rand

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

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

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

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>>9924179
>best
Shelley
Yourcenar
LeGuin
Dickinson
Christie

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

Hannah Arendt is good.

>>9928604
what? that's crazy!

Sara Ahmed

Sylvia Plath

Your mom op

>>9929087
Ewwww

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Muriel Spark is cool.

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

>>9929212
Good choice.

>>9924192
Thank you for your recommendation.

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

>>9924179
Rupi Kaur, of course.

Taylor Swift is an unhealthy obsession.. get help

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>>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.

>>9933319
Fuck outta this board, dicklet

- Tommy P

>>9933962
t. dicklet

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

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

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