Female authors thread

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>>Donna Tartt
>>Nikolay Gogol impersonator

Angela Carter is garbage.

the catholic queen of southern gothic, flannery o'connor

Worrying about whether every author you read is "truly great" is a waste of time, but here's some good and interesting ones I own a lot of novels by:
Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, A.S. Byatt, Margeurite Duras, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Hebert, Shirley Jackson, Evelyn Lau, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart.

I loved Frankenstein, but i haven't read any more from Shelley, so im not qualified to say she's goat. Is George Sand any good? I've seen her mentioned along other decimononical authors worth remembering

>no Colette

I'm not a huge fan of most of her work, but My Mother's House is a masterpiece imo.

Clarice Lispector

emily dickinson is my favorite

I remember waifuing her in freshman highschool for some reason.

GOAT desu

seconding this. also:
Unica Zurn
Leonora Carrington
Anne Carson

shes very cute and her poetry is comfy

True.
>The Master poems: Dickinson left a large number of poems addressed to "Signor", "Sir" and "Master", who is characterized as Dickinson's "lover for all eternity". These confessional poems are often "searing in their self-inquiry" and "harrowing to the reader" and typically take their metaphors from texts and paintings of Dickinson's day. The Dickinson family themselves believed these poems were addressed to actual individuals but this view is frequently rejected by scholars. Farr, for example, contends that the Master is an unattainable composite figure, "human, with specific characteristics, but godlike" and speculates that Master may be a "kind of Christian muse".

Yes true, love her.

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Flannery O'Connor

Frida Kahlo

Æmilia Richardia

or would that be Richardina?
I think that's prettier.
>Æmilia Richardina

This Debbie Downer hamplanet sounds like she was such a bore to be around.

Willa Cather. Death Comes For the Archbishop fits right into Veeky Forums's general interests.

Loorie Moore almost is never mentioned in these threads so imma plug her. She's so fucking Veeky Forums it's unbelievable. Go read self help by her.

My other plug: C.E. Morgan--holy fucking shit she is the GOAT. Fuck All The Living, that book is a decent first attempt at a novel but holy shit The Sport of Kings? That's the best fucking book that came out this year and everybody slept on it.

Lastly, Ottessa Moshfegh. She's got some stories published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and likely other places I don't read. Y'all are gonna get her most recent publication Eileen and then preorder her collection of stories coming out in like a month. Eileen is the most Veeky Forums character I've ever read:
>alcoholic father
>dead mother
>drives a busted car that poisons her with exhaust if the windows up so has to drive with the windows down in the winter and therefore wears heavy clothing when she drives to avoid the problem
>eats nothing but some peanuts for a whole week and then takes a bunch of laxatives and shits her brains out in the basement toilet for hours and then passes out from pleasure and exhaustion and emptiness
>works at a boys reform institute and gets turned on by one of them jerking off
She's so literary but so base at the same time. All her stories involve really agoraphobic characters, all licentious and obsessive, that spend a lot of time in their own interiors.

Get to reading, Veeky Forums! I swear to god half this place doesn't read.

aimee bender is the keeper of the flame for american magical realism

She isn't that Veeky Forums. She's fairly overrated MFA-tier writing.
Mary Gaitskill does everything she does but better.

You wish, pussy.

It's comfy if you take no offense to the ideas of suicide.

CUTE

No, but worth a read.
What other Colette have you read? I thought Chéri was great, and La fin de Chéri was bretty gud, same for Gigi. But then I read Le Pur et l'impur and I was struck by how different it was from the other work I'd read.
Any suggestions on where to go after Agua Viva?
>scholars rejecting the family's interpretation
Sounds a bit odd to me. Chances are they have more insight into her life than they would. But I'm no Dickinson scholar trying to secure tenure.
A Veeky Forumsizen back in the early days recommended this to me. Very comfy, will read again soon.

>Sappho
hell ya I love the movie precious but even that aint as good as the novel push by her btw its spelled sapphire

>Munro
Aw yiss

>more original prose
>deals with characters and subject matter that haven't been written to death
>I can actually remember distinct moments from Gaitskill's fiction, the only thing I remember from the entire collection Birds of America is the passage where she gives the impression of being experimental
>Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ad nauseum for no real purpose other than "geez, she's tired of her husband's shit"

Mah boi. Lorrie Moore is incredible. Her characters are just amazingly authentic and funny and human. Even great authors can't help but sometimes call attention to their style, make you aware of the fact that you're reading a piece of fiction, but Moore is one of those rare ones who make it look effortless. Good call. Gonna check those other two you suggested since you seem to have your shit together.

damn Sylvia Plath looks like THAT?

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>first husband was a punk abuser who put her through henious shit
>planned on carrying heroin across borders
>plan fell through, still got a free ticket bcse dealer said "lol fuck it"
>former prostitute
>back to the states
>vowed to hate all men or something similar amongst these lines
>wrote 10 books on feminism
>cuck "husband"
>"im a lesbian, he's gay"
>married
>the fuck
>Peter Sotos & Jim Goad roasted her beyond belief
>Even some of her own comradeskis hated her guts
>CONSTANTLY CLAIMED RAPE CLAIMS

hmmmmmmmmm
I wonder if she was bias or something, idk

Marguerite Yourcenar

>Any suggestions on where to go after Agua Viva?
the other 3 books published by new directions with the same cover scheme: The Passion According to G.H., The Breath of Life, Near to the Wild Heart

Lorrie Moore
Tove Jansson
Flannery O'Connor
Carson McCullers
Elena Garro
Joan Didion
Ágota Kristóf
Magda Szabó
Virginia Woolf
Brontë sisters
Lydia Davis
Anne Carson
Shirley Jackson
Clarice Lispector

kek, NO.
t. mexican

I wonder how Clarice's translations into English are... I've read her in Portuguese and Spanish, but I'm guessing a lot of her style gets lost in translations to non-Romance languages.

any suggestions?

Nice tastes, user. You forgot Hilda Hilst. Do you have a pdf/epub copy of something by Unica Zurn?

Jane Austen
Beryl Bainbridge
Simone de Beauvoir
Sybille Bedford
Aphra Behn
Caroline Blackwood
Vera Brittain
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Anita Brookner
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Leonora Carrington
Margaret Cavendish
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Barbara Comyns
Jennifer Dawson
EM Delafield
Margaret Drabble
Daphne Du Maurier
George Eliot
Fumiko Enchi
Penelope Fitzgerald
Marie de France
Elizabeth Gaskell
Stella Gibbons
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Julian of Norwich
Molly Keane
Louise Labé
Madame de Lafayette
Olivia Manning
Katherine Mansfield
Nancy Mitford
Penelope Mortimer
Iris Murdoch
Irène Némirovsky
Anaïs Nin
Edna O'Brien
Barbara Pym
Mary Renault
Jean Rhys
Christina Rossetti
Vita Sackville-West
Françoise Sagan
Lady Sarashina
Mary Shelley
Sei Shonagon
Murasaki Shikibu
Edith Sitwell
Stevie Smith
Muriel Spark
Elizabeth Taylor
Flora Thompson
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Rebecca West
Antonia White
Mary Wollstonecraft
Virginia Woolfe

Isak Dinesen (not Karen Blixen, anyone who reads Dinesen in Danish as Blixen is missing out)
Even in her old age I would still smash her, syphilis, warts, wrinkles and all.

Olga Tokarczuk and her claimant to New Meme Trilogy

>>Peter Sotos roasted her beyond belief
not really

Song of Solomon is unironically good.

Which female author did or does /ss/ best?

This is a damn fine thread, some I havent even heard of.

what are some Female Hacks? the ones that get shilled every where by tumblrinas and booktubers? just so I can avoid them.

she is right on the betrayal, but only because women have children due to their fantasy of stopping being self absorbed for once in their life and thinking that they will realize this through their children, children which become only the avatar of their egotism

HELP

Well, not anymore. But she used to look like this.

>great female authors

oxymoron

this user knows what's up :^)

Can't believe no one mentioned Elizabeth Bishop. That woman is one of the greatest poetry masters of 20th c.

Kristine Ong Muslim
Leonora Carrington
Emma Goldman

Luisa Josefina Hernández

none lol

Stein is dogshit

>no Brontë

kys

Laura Restrepo

Rachel Kushner

Anne Carson

Zora Neale Hurston

Geraldine Brooks

Valerie Solanas

>What other Colette have you read?
There was a paperback with Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances. Chance Acquaintances was the best of the three but the others struck me as very conventional and uninteresting; Chance Acquaintances at least had its own voice, and an idiosyncratically female one at that.

My Mother's House was completely different. Totally plotless, 100% lyrical. I don't usually fall for the lyricism meme because I don't think it has much relevance to the ugliness of the present day, but this book was an incredible look into the life of a comfy French village in the late 1800s.

Anais Nin
Unica Zurn
Leonaro Carrington

Don't care for any others

>Smith
Ali or Zadie?

Munro
Le Guin
Dickinson
Sapho

Pic related, my poetryfu.

My Antonia is the MOST comfy book.

Also pic related are excellent novels in a deeply sincere, almost diarist style. The covers are trash meant to sell to shitty American soccer moms, ignore them.

''The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster. ''

This is pretty mediocre poetry desu.

2nd this

Make way for the queen of Veeky Forums

How about any interesting female writers post-90s? Preferably active even now. Other than le Guin or Oates I mean.

I don't like black people.

No use crying about. That's your problem.

I don't like whiners like you. Do my people do the things you do/have done to blacks?
Maybe we should start.

Nice rhythm

Literally who?

It's a meme, comrade. I'm really very leftwing.

neck yourself.

Hurston is love.

Carson is fucking great.

can second this. the series is great. like the user said its deeply sincere, I would almost call it confessional. I think the publisher fucked up hard with the cover design, because even though the main character is female - the books aren't soccer mom type crap at all. they can get quite uncomfortable in theme. great stuff.

Anybody read this?

In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself
by Wislawa Szymborska - 1976

The buzzard never says it is to blame.
The panther wouldn't know what scruples mean.
When the piranha strikes, it feels no shame.
If snakes had hands, they'd claim their hands were clean.

A jackal doesn't understand remorse.
Lions and lice don't waver in their course.
Why should they, when they know they're right?

Though hearts of killer whales may weigh a ton,
in every other way they're light.

On this third planet of the sun
among the signs of bestiality
a clear conscience is Number One.

what about some Poswiatowska
mój cień jest kobietą

odkryłam to na ścianie

on się uśmiechał falistością linii

i ptak bioder o zwiniętych skrzydłach

na gałęzi uśmiechu śpiewał
drzewo kwitnące

obwieszone zielonymi papugami

poprzez skrzydła

pomarańcza złota dojrzałość

słońce na kroplach połyska

w deszczu

proste i nagie drzewo

moje usta uchylone piersi
wschodzący księżyc rzęs zamigotał

i zgasł

gdy zdmuchnąłeś zapałki płomień

i oparłeś na ramionach moich dłonie

mój cień był kobietą

nim zniknął
______________-
or Małgorzata Hilar
Myślałam
Wreszcie będę mówić

Tyle się we mnie
słów zebrało

Tyle słów
dojrzałych i twardych
jak ziarnka żyta
cierpkich
jak gruszki polne
aksamitnych
jak pszczoły

Myślałam
Dam ci te moje słowa

Ale kiedy otworzyłam usta
zamknąłeś je
swoimi wargami

Cofnęły się słowa moje
schowały się we mnie
jak ptaki lękliwe

Teraz
już tylko czasami
wyglądają oczami

Munro's published a few collections, but I figure you're not asking about her, either.

Stevie

>Flannery O'Connor.

Her novel Wise Blood kicks ass. The two last chapters blew me away.

Also, can anybody rec me a good collection of stories by Lorrie Moore? SHe's written tons, but I want only her best.

Literally January Jones. Literally.