should I read? Women authors?

[Joel Katz]

you should try reading some mary gaitskill, bekah.  i know you'd be sure to 
like it.  if you liked it, perhaps we could get together to talk about it.  
i know i'd like that very much.




>From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>To: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: should I read?  Women authors?
>Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:37:57 -0700
>
>I know it about Lessing and Woolf.   I tried to keep my list to more or 
>less contemporary authors  or Bronte and Austen would certainly be there 
>along with George Eliot and George Sand and Kate Chopin and a whole hostess 
>of others.    It's like we know these women,  but when it comes to making a 
>list we forget.  I'm guilty, too.
>
>I'm making a page for my site with links to 20-21st century women literary 
>authors.  (I've never been interested in doing anything like this before.   
>hmmmmmmmm.)
>
>Gertrude Stein!    Zora Neal Hurston!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bek
>
>At 3:09 PM -0400 8/8/05, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>>The Golden Notebook should be among the top 10 of this (or any) list.  Why 
>>it's not there is a mystery.  Lessing is one of the few (if not only) 
>>great women writers, although there are many good women writers.  Much has 
>>been written about why this is (A Room of One's Own, for starters).  
>>Surely Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre deserve a mention somewhere?
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>>Sent: Aug 8, 2005 1:10 PM
>>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: should I read?  Women authors?
>>
>>The top 169 novels include these women and their books:
>>
>>   56.. The Age of Innocence : Edith Wharton : 9
>>59.. Two Girls, Fat and Thin : Mary Gaitskill : 8
>>63.. A Book of Common Prayer : Joan Didion : 8
>>76.. To Kill a Mockingbird : Harper Lee : 7
>>89.. The Story of the Treasure Seekers : Edith Nesbit : 5
>>90.. Always Coming Home : Ursula LeGuin : 5
>>124.. Beloved : Toni Morrison : 3
>>139.. Geek Love : Katherine Dunn : 2
>>149.. Cat's Eye : Margaret Atwood : 2
>>151.. Messiah of Stockholm : Cynthia Ozick : 1
>>161.. The Secret History : Donna Tartt : 1
>>
>>
>>There are certainly more women authors of quality fiction than that,
>>and the ones listed have certainly written more books!   (I'm
>>thinking of  Atwood and LeGuin and Ozick,  whose last novel was a
>>marvel!).
>>
>>So I made a brief list of the best of the unincluded:  (authors only,
>>some have written dozens of books)
>>
>>Ali Smith      Hotel
>>Angela Carter  Nights at the Circus
>>AS Byatt       Possession
>>Keri Hulme     The Bone People
>>Pat Barker     Regeneration
>>Helen DeWitt   The Last Samurai
>>Rilla Askew    The Mercy Seat
>>Kathy Acker    Don Quixote
>>Doris Lessing    The Golden Notebook
>>Virginia Woolf   A Room of One's Own
>>Iris Murdoch     The Bell
>>
>>Some other,  or not necessarily contemporary, women  authors (staying
>>in the 20th-21st century),  in no particular order are:
>>
>>Willa Cather
>>Annie Proulx
>>Monica Ali
>>Zadie Smith
>>Carson McCullers
>>Anais Nin
>>Andrea Levy
>>Penelope Fitzgerald
>>Arundhati Roy
>>Ann Patchett
>>Carol Shields
>>Joyce Carol Oates
>>Jhumpa Lahiri
>>J.K.  Rowling?  (g)
>>
>>There are undoubtedly a bunch I'm neglecting.  I think that there are
>>a couple of good up and coming women authors from Africa  and India.
>>The current Nobel for Literature is a woman from Poland but I don't
>>know her name right now and haven't read anything by her.
>>
>>And a few I want to read:
>>
>>Nadine Gordimer
>>Jeanette Winterson
>>Joyce Johnson
>>Elfriede Jelinek
>>Buchi Emecheta
>>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
>>
>>
>>Bekah
>

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