Fiction

I've never seen a female author focus on the "technical details", of sex and violence for example, in the way that some male authors will (John Updike, Cormac McCarthy); or male authors focus on inner emotional life in the way that female authors often will. And yet when I consider authors like Margaret Atwood, Leslie Marmon Silko, V. S. Naipaul, Kazuo Ishiguro, or Proust, I am reluctant to grant even that much.

When I was younger, I preferred male authors in the modern western tradition, now I look for authors who are not that in one form or another (female, pre-modern, non-western, all or some of those).