<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1515002963640_6406" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1515002963640_6476">The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - I should've mentioned that story.</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 1:00 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1429020354"><div><div dir="ltr">One of my unimportant "hobbies' is watching--comes from my erstwhile profession---how writers "move" in the cultural ether. Or how I think I see them move...<div>(with Google analytics now one can actually get some loose stats if wanted)</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Watching Ms Le Guin get canonized (sic) in Amer Lit history has been very rewarding....from L of A thru so much attention, quoting, being alluded to---that</div><div>great story of the suffering of children for example.....<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div class="yiv1429020354gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv1429020354yqt1489935563" id="yiv1429020354yqtfd82533"><div class="yiv1429020354gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Joseph Tracy <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:brook7@sover.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:brook7@sover.net">brook7@sover.net</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv1429020354gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Glad someone put Ursula Le Guin<br clear="none">
I think Louise Erdrich belongs on my list too<br clear="none">
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> On Jan 1, 2018, at 6:43 PM, Joseph Tracy <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:brook7@sover.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:brook7@sover.net">brook7@sover.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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> Barbara Kingsolver ( I think Lacuna a great under-rated masterpiece, but all her work is excellent)<br clear="none">
> Zora Neale Hurston<br clear="none">
> Arundhati Roy<br clear="none">
> Mararet Atwood<br clear="none">
> Isak Dineson gets little mention these days but truly a master short story teller along with memoir-Out of Africa<br clear="none">
> Mary McCarthy<br clear="none">
> I think Rebecca Solnit well worth reading, moving from radical environmentalism to some aggressively funny and spot-on feminism. Men Explain Things to Me. The term mansplaining came out of her writing.<br clear="none">
> I also think Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine is one of the most powerful pieces of non-fiction I have ever read. The book takes up top down economics, deep state machinations and an expose of the dark underbelly of Milton Friedman’s theories. This is a book several men have tried to write and failed.<br clear="none">
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>> On Jan 1, 2018, at 1:34 AM, philip goode <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:phigoode@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:phigoode@gmail.com">phigoode@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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>> Easily I can say the majority of my personal library is written by men and I'd like to even up the male/female ratio, this seems like a sensible place to turn for suggestions. I'm open to any non-fiction (philosophy, history, (auto)biographies, feminism (theory/lectures), etc.) or any fiction (classics, horror, sci-fi/adventure/fantasy, etc.) as well as kids books or anything else you think is worth sharing.<br clear="none">
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>> Damme, I've also been sitting a few pages into Chapter 40 of M&D for a long time and hope to take this current group read as the opportunity to jump back in and finish it finally.<br clear="none">
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>> Thanks everyone, Happy New Year!<br clear="none">
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>> "Suggest you, Sir, even in Play, that this giggling Rout of poxy half-wits, embody us? Embody us? America but some Fairy Emanation, without substance, that hath pass'd, by Miracle, into them?--Damme, I think not, --Hell were a better Destiny."<br clear="none">
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