What does it mean to ‘write like a girl’?
me: i don’t know if i like zambreno’s prose style in green girl
Lk: yeah?
me: yeah
Lk: she seems too flowery
me: yeah
Lk: frilly
i like no frills
me: i was going to say, ‘she writes like a girl’
Lk: hahah yes
me: yeah
seems weird
to think that
Lk: seems normal
me: but like it feels distinctly feminine
by weird i mean bad
I like that hysterical manic prose though; I think we sometimes overvalue some Hemingway minimalist shit, some sort of masculine ideal of objectivity and detachment, where I get off on all that self-involved ranty rhyming and kind of manic alliteration and so on, the things that read nicely but sound, to be frank, a little crazy. Also odd as Green Girl (granted i read it over a year ago now I think) seemed really, really controlled to me — the book is nothing if not deliberate, and I think there’s a lot of value (both literary and emotional) in that sort of deliberately controlled & displayed mania and panic and confusion
