Female Authors

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

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?

>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.

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.

You kept the best, user. 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.

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

Wise Blood by O'Connor, its pretty good

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

No

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

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)

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

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

This.

Tommy Pincone in a dress.

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

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Shakespeare or Homer

>not Mansfield Park

wew

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

what THE FUCK

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.

>Favourite female author
>Zadie Smith

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.

Clarice Lispector

Banana Yoshimoto

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

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.

is this a mommy porn book

Anne Sexton. She had sex a ton. Heh.

12 Chinamen or "Ethics"?

12 chinamen

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

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

dam, she writes books??

Ayn Rand

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

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

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>best
Shelley
Yourcenar
LeGuin
Dickinson
Christie

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

Hannah Arendt is good.

what? that's crazy!

Sara Ahmed

Sylvia Plath

Your mom op

Ewwww

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

Good choice.

Thank you for your recommendation.

What is it you believe they write about?

Rupi Kaur, of course.

Taylor Swift is an unhealthy obsession.. get help

>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.

Fuck outta this board, dicklet

- Tommy P

t. dicklet

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

bump

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