Clarice Lispector
she's amazing.
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
hippocampus - Nov 02, 2007 3:52:57 am PDT #4246 of 28249
not your mom's socks.
Toddson - Nov 02, 2007 3:53:44 am PDT #4247 of 28249
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" and/or "Three Guineas"?
Emily - Nov 02, 2007 6:15:40 am PDT #4248 of 28249
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Or Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons, [link] which is slighter, but a good read.
Oh, man. That book, along with Bastard Out of Carolina and The Book of Ruth, made me wary of "Southern women's fiction" as a genre for years.
If you're willing to deal with a bit of preachiness, there's Tepper's Gate to Women's Country or Gibbon's Decline and Fall. The gender-role stuff is huge and explicit and a bit biased (women=creative force for good, men=you can imagine), but I found them interesting.
Hayden - Nov 02, 2007 6:58:30 am PDT #4249 of 28249
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I recommend Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, or Grace Paley's The Little Disturbances of Man (which is a short story collection)
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2007 7:54:57 am PDT #4250 of 28249
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you're willing to deal with a lot of preachiness, try Tepper's The Fresco. I think she takes the feminism and twists it into something ugly, but it might be good fodder for some heated discussion.
Typo Boy - Nov 02, 2007 7:59:38 am PDT #4251 of 28249
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
...try Tepper's The Fresco. I think she takes the feminism and twists it into something ugly, but it might be good fodder for some heated discussion.
I think she does that a lot.
Emily - Nov 02, 2007 9:01:32 am PDT #4252 of 28249
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
It's more unusual for Tepper when one of her books doesn't make someone feel that way, in fact.
erikaj - Nov 02, 2007 9:21:48 am PDT #4253 of 28249
Always Anti-fascist!
Thanks for all the great suggestions. I knew the hivemind wouldn't let me down. I love Atwood and Paley and sometimes Lippmann(Although she's a life-stealing heffa and I don't like her series books as well as the stand-alones. Which is not related to the heffa issue.) Off-topic, Corwood: thanks for the pimpage.
amych - Nov 02, 2007 9:22:31 am PDT #4254 of 28249
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
she's a life-stealing heffa
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erikaj - Nov 02, 2007 9:26:46 am PDT #4255 of 28249
Always Anti-fascist!
It's a joke. Because she's a best-selling mystery novelist and I'm a wannabe, and she's married to my Fake Literary Husband. So it's like she has the life I wanted or something. (mock-shaking fist) Bitch.