Some Favorite Essays, Short Stories, Novels
Essays: 1. Helene Cixous - Laugh of Medusa 2. Anne Carson - Evil and Suffering in Modern Poetry 3. Kathy Acker - Myth of Romantic Suffering 4. Virginia Woolf - On Not Knowing Greek 5. Adrienne Rich - Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying - Adrienne Rich - Three Other Essays 6. Alice Walker - Looking for Zora 7. Anna Klobucka - Helene Cixous & Clarice Lispector 8. Joan Didion - On Self-Respect 9. Margaret Atwood - Am I a Bad Feminist? 10. Jeffrey Meyers - The Savage Experiment: Arthur Rimbaud 11. Jennifer Nash - Practicing Love 12. Paul J. M. van Tongeren - “A Splendid Failure” Nietzche Suffering 13. Albert Henrichs - Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: Dionysus
Short Stories: 1. Clarice Lispector - Love 2. Anne Carson - 1 = 1 3. Margaret Atwood - Stone Mattress 4. Amy Bloom - Silver Water 5. Gunnhild Øyehaug - Same Time, Another Planet 6. Anne Carson - Back the Way you Went 7. Tatyana Tolstaya - Unnecessary Things 8. Kirstin Valdez Quade - Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224) 9. Clarice Lispector - One Day Less Novels: 1. Helene Cixous - Stigmata 2. Helene Cixous - Ex-Cities 3. Helene Cixous - Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (my favorite) 4. Jean Genet - A Thief’s Journal (another link) 5. Judith Butler - Bodies that Matter 6. Clarice Lispector - AGUA VIVA (my favorite) Happy Holidays, friends. I hope you enjoy. - Love, E