NP, a request for female authors (with a M&D mention at the end)

[Mark Kohut]

Philip,

I'll try to help too.

Like a good bookseller should always ask, Why?, What are any reasons beyond
inequality, i.e. within your wide scope of subjects, what do you want
females to bring to your reading? If anything you can or want to
articulate. In certain subjects, sex or gender is not 'supposed' to matter.
Whether it does, open.......in others--novels, poetry, etc. it IS supposed
to matter, often a lot, many say.

First, may I suggest taking a look--maybe from a library first, since a lot
of the essays taking off from certain art and other things might not be
readable until you've encountered the other 'thing'--at Siri Husveldt's
collection Women Looking at Men Looking at Women, wherein she has a great
essay or three exploring WHY almost everyone today/always, even women, read
more men than women and rate men the more valuable artists--by a long shot.

I, personally, have been fascinated all my life by the way many female
writers have grown into canonical status over my lifetime. Virginia Woolf,
say, minor in status when I was coming-of-age but now.....not. Ed
Mendelssohn, a great Pynchon loving reader rates her the other must-read
great (earlier) modernist....
And Willa Cather, say.....and Zora Neale Hurston, say, for
examples....There have been great Nobel prize winners who are women.

And Mary Beard's new one, Women & Power, hot and which I just got, so know
little, might lead to others itself, dunno....as Woolf's Room of One's Own
is a modern classic
on unread, uneducated women........

History, philosophy, see who the best are. Autobiographies, look for the
most interesting life or praise for the best writing about. By someone you
trust...

Hunt for the shock of recognition--of you, of ideas.

Happy New Year!

Mark K





On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 1:34 AM, philip goode <phigoode at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks everyone, Happy New Year!
>
> "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."
>
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