Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" and/or "Three Guineas"?
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
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."
Toddson - Nov 02, 2007 3:53:44 am PDT #4247 of 28706
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Emily - Nov 02, 2007 6:15:40 am PDT #4248 of 28706
"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 28706
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 28706
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 28706
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 28706
"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 28706
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
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 28706
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 28706
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
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.
Jesse - Nov 02, 2007 9:33:26 am PDT #4256 of 28706
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Laura Lippman and David Simon are married?!? I had no idea! That's cool.