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

Joseph Tracy brook7 at sover.net
Wed Jan 3 11:27:49 CST 2018


Glad someone put Ursula Le Guin
I think Louise Erdrich belongs on my list too

> On Jan 1, 2018, at 6:43 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> Barbara Kingsolver   ( I think Lacuna a great under-rated masterpiece, but all her work is excellent)
> Zora Neale Hurston
> Arundhati Roy
> Mararet Atwood
> Isak Dineson gets little mention these days but truly a master short story teller along with memoir-Out of Africa
> Mary McCarthy
> I think Rebecca Solnit well worth reading, moving from radical environmentalism to some aggressively funny and spot-on feminism.  Men Explain Things to Me.  The term mansplaining came out of her writing.
> I also think Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine  is one of the most powerful pieces of  non-fiction I have ever read. The book takes up top down economics, deep state machinations and an expose of  the dark underbelly of Milton Friedman’s theories. This is a book several men have tried to write and failed. 
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>> On Jan 1, 2018, at 1:34 AM, philip goode <phigoode at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>> 
>> 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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