Posts by Carol Stewart
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How awesome is this news, which no doubt you've all heard by now? NZ poet Anna Smaill makes Booker long list with her fiction debut. Being on the same list as Anne Tyler, Anne Enright, Marilynne Robinson - just WOW.
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Up Front: Well, Read Women, in reply to chris,
Thomas Hardy
Bathsheba Everdene, sure. Tess of the D'Urbervilles? Hmm. I remember finding her very insipid when I read the book at high school but my adult self might be a bit more sympathetic to poor Tess.
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Up Front: Well, Read Women, in reply to Rich Lock,
good depictions of women in literature written by men
Michael Cunningham, The Hours.
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Up Front: Well, Read Women, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
That's a very good reason for writing anything -- if nobody else is writing what you want to read, why not give it a poke? :)
Indeed, although the results are not always as fabulous as was the case for Munro. The same motivation also applied to Agnes-Mary Brooke, who took to writing her own books for children as she was so dismayed what she saw as the left-wing agenda in NZ children's authors (warning: contains a reference to Investigate magazine).
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I was well aware of Alice Munro when I lived in Victoria, British Columbia, for a couple of years, as there was a magnificent local bookstore (Munro's books) which was founded by Munro and her then-husband in 1963. Apparently she took up writing as she decided she could do a better job than many of the books that were available back then.
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Speaking of stories short - I don't think anyone's mentioned KM. Or Alice Munro, or Lorrie Moore. Closer to home I've really enjoyed Charlotte Grimshaw's short story collections even if she observes her characters with a baleful eye.
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Up Front: Well, Read Women, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Have you read Tove Jansson's The Summer Book, Hilary? One of my favourites ever.
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A word here for Hilary Mantel and her inspired re-imaginings of the reign of Henry VIII (Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies). Oh how I wish the third book in the trilogy would appear. The BBC adaptation with Mark Rylance seems fantastic, what little I've seen of it.
She's also a handy social commentator - this interview with Der Spiegel is well worth a read. -
Up Front: Well, Read Women, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Flannery O'Conner
Muriel Spark
Patricia Grace
Tove JanssonYou've rounded up some of my favourites there Joe. A few more of mine:
E.Annie Proulx
Anne Tyler
carol Shields
Penelope Lively
Arundhati Roy
Pat Barker -
Ah snap!