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

[Drake Smith]

Short yet potent pre-18th C reading:

Fantomina by Eliza Haywood

Oronooko: or the Royal Slave by Aphra Behn

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Renata Adler’s fiction may be as brilliant and heroic as Joan Didion’s non-
>
> If you like David Markson read RA.
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> On Jan 3, 2018, at 12:59 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> One of my unimportant "hobbies' is watching--comes from my erstwhile
> profession---how writers "move" in the cultural ether. Or how I think I see
> them move...
> (with Google analytics now one can actually get some loose stats if wanted)
>
> Watching Ms Le Guin get canonized (sic) in Amer Lit history has been very
> rewarding....from L of A thru so much attention, quoting, being alluded
> to---that
> great story of the suffering of children for example.....
>
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> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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>> 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:
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >> On 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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