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

[Keith Davis]

Iris Murdoch
Barbara Kingsolver

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> On Jan 1, 2018, at 12:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Philip,
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> I'll try to help too. 
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> 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........
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> 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...
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> Hunt for the shock of recognition--of you, of ideas. 
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> Happy New Year!
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> Mark K
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>> On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 1:34 AM, philip goode <phigoode at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
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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.
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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.
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>> Thanks everyone, Happy New Year!
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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."
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