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

[Mark Kohut]

Philip,

Alison Lurie: Pynchon's wife-agent Melanie Jackson became Alison Lurie's
agent when they---TRP and she--began working together. At least one
early--first-- involved buying the rights back from another agent.

And Iris Murdoch's non-fiction too.

Later,
Mark



On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 3:33 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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!
>>>
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>>>
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>>
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