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

[Laura Kelber]

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook and Children of Violence series. Mary
McCarthy - short stories and The Group. Iris Murdoch - my personal favorite
is The Sea, The Sea.

In the lesser-known/forgotten department:

Prodigal Women, by Nancy Hale - what a book! The best depiction of girlhood
friendship, growing up into flawed women, and two of the most loathsome but
believable men in literature.

Alison Lurie's books. She tends towards arch satires of academia  -- if you
like David Lodge and Zadie Smith, give her a try. Imaginary Friends is
laugh-out-loud funny. Many of her novels are based on her times at Cornell
(shortly after Pynchon left).

The Female Man, by Joanna Russ. Feminist sci-fi. Russ was a contemporary of
Pynchon at Cornell.

Lying Low, by Diane Johnson. Building tension, believable characters. I
haven't read her better-known The Shadow Knows. Johnson's best-known work
is the screenplay for The Shining, which she co-wrote with Kubrick.

Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys. Her prequel to Jane Eyre.

The Transit of Venus, by Shirley Hazzard.

My mother always nagged me to read, but I never got around to it: anything
by Margaret Drabble, particularly Jerusalem the Golden and The Needle's
Eye. Anyone read her?

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Iris Murdoch
> Barbara Kingsolver
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> On Jan 1, 2018, at 12:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
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> 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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