Comments on: 15 Significant Contemporary Women Writers

By: john duvernoy

john duvernoy — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:44:42 +0000

C.D. Wright

Rosemarie Waldrop

Ariana Reines

Sarah Riggs

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:32:35 +0000

knew i forgot somebody

mary gaitskill

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:14:53 +0000

i would echo

am homes
amy hempel

and am really glad to see

mary miller

and would add in

holly goddard jones

By: Midweek Pick-Me-Up | Lit Drift: Storytelling in the 21st Century

Midweek Pick-Me-Up | Lit Drift: Storytelling in the 21st Century — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:26:03 +0000

[...] list of “15 Towering Literary Figures” and Christopher Higgs’ list of “15 Significant Contemporary Women Writers,” Michael Schaub makes his own list: “15 Rich-Ass Authors I’ve Suddenly Decided to [...]

By: barry

barry — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:21:55 +0000

you are correct sir. a very gritty realism.

By: Christopher Higgs

Christopher Higgs — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:11:16 +0000

Hi Barry,

I’m unfamiliar with Jayne Anne Phillips. I’ve just gone and looked at a few representative samples from her website and from the first few pages of her books Lark & Termite and Fastlanes and a few others…and from this (admittedly brief) encounter I get the sense that she is a story-driven writer who is interested in conventional realism, which does not appeal to me at all. You’ll notice that the majority (if not all?) of the writers I have selected tend toward the experimental, which is what appeals to me. If I’m wrong in my assessment of Jayne Anne Phillips please let me know. I am always eager to learn about other experimental writers.

By: Tim Jones-Yelvington

Tim Jones-Yelvington — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:26:32 +0000

wanted to like jco, but hated the book I started with (Faithless). I get that “maximalism” or whatever is her think, but it read like word vomit, I thought, and how many times can you reference “rank animal stench” in the same volume?

By: Tim Jones-Yelvington

Tim Jones-Yelvington — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:19:50 +0000

just read phosphor and dreamland and thought it was fucking hysterical.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:01:49 +0000

Agreed. I bet just about everybody loves some Didion and hates some, but she certains towers in the literary world as far as I’m concerned.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:59:58 +0000

I’ve always thought that kid with cancer story fantastic. In fact, I find Lorrie Moore fantastic, though I’ve never cared for her novels very much. I don’t find the things she writes ABOUT very interesting, and if she were anyone else I wouldn’t read her at all. But her writing is brilliant, and her characters are so fascinating and real and dynamic that I can get into even a story about the relationship between a mother and a daughter traveling together.