{"id":78606,"date":"2015-11-04T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T16:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78606"},"modified":"2015-11-04T08:17:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T16:17:51","slug":"novelists-worth-a-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78606","title":{"rendered":"Novelists Worth A Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Chateau<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* Welsh novelist Tessa Hadley writes some fascinating fiction. Her novels tend to be somewhat episodic, like short story collections tenuously strung together, but there are some magnificent anti-feminist insights in them.<\/p>\n

Her third novel, \u201cThe Master Bedroom\u201d, portrays an early-40s Jewish literature professor\u2019s midlife crisis, trying to seduce a married old flame while his son horndogs after her. The old flame\u2019s current wife is an elementary school teacher and SJW maniac, whose long mental breakdown begins with her storming out of a Handel recital because Classical music is, according to her, \u201cevil\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hadley\u2019s use of musical tastes for psychological profiling is of immense interest. Her debut novel \u201cAccidents in the Home\u201d has the late 20s, PhD candidate and cohabiting mother become obsessed with snagging the club promoter boyfriend of her childhood BFF, a fashion model who wears a lip ring. On family holiday in Ireland, she sulks around alone, takes up smoking cigarettes and listens nonstop to techno mixes on her headphones, self-consciously profanating her mind and her middle class existence, longing for a cold slick world of postmodern emptiness, fantasizing about the promoter\u2019s apartment full of cold chrome fixtures.<\/p>\n

Fay Weldon\u2019s late novels, like the horrific \u201cShe May Not Leave\u201d, have turned into delirious anti-feminist satires. Weldon\u2019s actually a better writer than Hadley (more energetic and more rabidly funny), and her Conspiracy Theorist\u2019s Tale in \u201cThe Spa\u201d is a full-out anti-Cultural Marxist manifesto.<\/p>\n

* Wolfe\u2019s I am Charlotte Simmons-even the church girls get hypergamy. Charlotte has spergy SJW Adam in the friend zone, longs for ZFG uber-Alpha Hoyt, and is an alpha widow notwithstanding snagging JoJo the basketball player (her beta bucks). So much sad truth in that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Chateau: * Welsh novelist Tessa Hadley writes some fascinating fiction. Her novels tend to be somewhat episodic, like short story collections tenuously strung together, but there are some magnificent anti-feminist insights in them. Her third novel, \u201cThe Master … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-literature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t