Curiosity during the reading of AtD.

[Mark Kohut]

Surely fewer women readers, surely. right ladies on the list? I offer simplistically that when he was said to have math and science shit in his early books, that culture-created distance of most women from those subjects created fewer readers. 
He is a feminist in many essential ways in his vision, I argue. 

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> On Sep 9, 2015, at 6:13 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks heaps, Kamil.  Looks to be good reading!
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> The Beefheart comparison was probably unfairly frivolous.  Of the po-mo nuts I know, the only one with a posthorn tat's Lisa Yaszek at the school of Literature & Communication at GA Tech.  She used to bang rails with Pat Cadigan.  Now she teaches rambling aspies how to speak without snarling.  It's a living...
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> Just got to wondering.  It's an aspect I rarely hear discussed, re: his "audience".  P's never been one to write with an eye toward a broader audience (groaannn) so the majority of his books don't pass that Bechdel test.  Why I continue to dig BE, obv.
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