Donald Barthelme's Syllabus

are there any syllabi of exclusively women's writing? can prob crowdsource one here, I guess wd contain at least 1 of didion, jean rhys, moore, spark, jansson, elizabeth bowen, highsmith, ferrante, le guin, munro, elizabeth bishop, mccullers, woolf, comyns, murdoch, o'connor, adler

i should read some woolf someday. probably. i should, right? i probably should.

i think i did read a room of one's own.

when all is said and done, i'm a pretty trad dad. katherine mansfield 4 lyfe.

btw scott, do I remember you like Thea Astley? If so, you might well like Elizabeth Harrower and Jessica Anderson, two other Australian writers of similar sensibility and style and sporadic bad-temperedness

are there any syllabi of exclusively women's writing?

yeah, i think i remembered where i first saw borges' list, which prompted this:

http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/74-books-curated-by-female-creatives.html

Reminder that in The Name of the Rose Eco made the blind venerable Jorge of Burgos the villain