Name anything of merit or worth ever written by a Canadian.

Anything written by Munro
>inb4 women
>inb4 short stories don't count
>inb4 Nobel who
>inb4 I can't read

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>>7588058
Why do so many funny people come from Canada?

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The secret prize on roll up the rim cups

Honestly I think Ondaatje is our best living writer but I haven't even read Munro or 90% of "can lit" so who am I to say? Rawi Hage is one of my favourite writers but both he and his books are decidedly hybrid Lebanese-Canadian. I guess being born in a war torn hellhole gets the literary juices flowing.

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>>7588085
Best living comedian.
Yeah they are total goofballs! That sweet, green, northern air must do something to their brain to make them self conscious of the strange hilarity that Canada is its own country and just generally green and funny

>>7588058
Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers

>>7588058
I just finished Alias Grace. It was OK

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>>7588058
He wasn't technically Canadian but we take complete credit for this man

Bonus points if you know what lakes those are in pic related

Under the Volcano

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>>7588058
lies

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/pdfs/articles/canlit24-Rejected(Smith).pdf&ved=0ahUKEwi89tX2oKvKAhUI1WMKHYoYDIwQFggZMAA&usg=AFQjCNFZtlOFtJHErX2l8_RG9I_TU6m4qA&sig2=2_LTMZtT1_iPDp_e9hWjJQ

amazon. ca/The-Red-Green-Book-Wisdom/dp/0761512357

>>7588058
Stefan Molyneux

>>7588058
How come a sparsely populated island of inbreds like ireland has produced so many quality writers while Canada has produced fuck all? Is it just because Canada has more of those brown things that come over on boats?

>>7588257
Because Ireland is pure suffering. Canada is simply insufferable.

>>7588263
Holy shit lell

>>7588263
Can someone explain this, why is Ireland historical seen as a place of suffering

>>7588275
Well, apart from being slaves to the brits, and the famine, and the fighting each other, and the war for independence, and with the advent of distilled liquor that gripped their people, and the weather, and the rightful nickname "green purgatory," there are also just too many goddamn ghosts.

>>7588098
this tbqh fampai

>>7588257
>>7588263
>while Canada has produced fuck all?
Your surroundings need to be at least slightly serious if you're to produce any worthwhile art. Imagine locking every Melville or Nabokov from your country in one of those babby themed amusment parks from birth until the age of 40. That's Canada.

>>7588063
Alice Munro is based.

>mfw I didn't know she was Canadian
>mfw I have no face

>>7588085
>>7588063
Kek'd at these sequential posts. Norm MacDonald worships Munro.

>>7588275
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0K2kaG3VhM

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>>7588290

>>7588290
Rly. That's quite the extrapolation to make from one tweet defending her after Bret Easton Ellis said she sucks.

>>7588257
>>7588275
>muh James Joyce

>>7588257
>has produced so many quality writers
lol literally Joyce, Becket, Yeats, the rest are memes

>>7588295
He's Christian, doing his Westboro Church version of gay bashing.

>>7588302
pleb (do not respond to this post)

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>>7588295
>>7588295

>>7588309
>greatest writer alive
Why do plebs have to opine?

>>7588305
>>7588312

>>7588312
wut

>>7588316
What did I say? Don't you ever respond that post, (EVER.)

>>7588285
As a Canadian this is 100% true. Entitled, overprivileged, and babied. Canada was pretty based before sayy...1965...or whenever they changed our flag from the Red Ensign. I need to buy one before they make it illegal, or equate it to owning a confederate flag. Fuck I hate this country.

Gonna sound pleb as fuck but Yann Martel tbqf. I read Life of Pi when I was 12 and it really affected me on a fundamental level. When he released Beatrice & Virgil almost a decade later I immediately devoured it. Apparently he's releasing a new book in the spring and I'm honestly so excited.

>>7588411
Life of Pi, for me, was, like, the herald of identity politics. I cannot hate a book more.

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>>7588424
>>7588411
He comes from fucking Trent U

Le libraire - Gérard Bessette

>>7588275
snakes

Alistair Macleod yo

Saul Bellow was born in Canada. Alice Munro writes good short stories. There might even be one or two I forgot, also.

>>7588257
>How come a sparsely populated island of inbreds like ireland has produced so many quality writers
The King and the Pauper are equal in experience, the assumption that the 'cultivated classes' have more important things to say is one of the obstacles in literature. It is the insufferable middle classes who are spewing out meaningless tripe that they consider avant-garde because their dumb fuck mediocre parents convinced them they were special. Yes I am bitter, so what?

>>7588693
Precious snowflake syndrome? Strange because they seem to pump out the pop rockers and artists. Maybe there are just better things to do than get all literary?

>>7588193
My grandparents live in the town he based this around

The Handmaids Tale is outstanding as a modern extension of Chaucer.

>>7588263
>this nigga has never visited Saskatchewan
That place is a fucking wasteland

Name anything of merit or worth ever written by a america.

Name anything of merit or worth ever written by a non eastenr european.

Réjean Ducharme and Gaston Miron

>>7589292
yeah, its basically a town for "the newly wed and nearly dead" as they say.

>>7588293
>ending question with . and not ?

>>7588058

That's Colin Mochrie not Ryan Styles, in case anyone doesn't know.

>>7588225
no one rest this it's my fav Canadian piece ever, takes 1 min

justin beiber- Baby

>>7588206
Lowry wasn't born in Canada.

>>7589310
Everything by Hawkes, everything by Barth, everything by Gaddis, everything by Pynchon, everything by Gass.

>>7589381
10/10

>>7589415
Are you new?

>>7588063
she's really good

still have chills thinking about the train story

>>7588344

>I need to buy one before they make it illegal, or equate it to owning a confederate flag

It's the flag of ontario, what makes you think it would ever be banned? As if the historical and social context of the red ensign is remotely comparable to that of the confederate flag.

>>7588344
Before 1965 we were basically the left arm of Britain. Don't even pretend any different.

Anyway the reason we have no lit is partially due to lack of identity. What is Canada? We are a young country with no defining characteristic other than our environment.

The USA is almost 100 years older than us and also gained its own identity through the revolution and all those events.

Us? Our history was bending over to whatever Britain wanted and trying not to be too much like the USA. Our nation has no identity.

>>7591329
>That flag represents a monoculture of white Anglo-Saxons and Francophones!
>How dare you fly that flag instead of the flag that unites us all, coast to coast, as multicultural Canadians!
>Do you even know what year it is?

>>7591352
Literally never heard of anyone dissing someone about the Red Ensign before.

Do you live with the most idiotic Canadians ever?

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>>7588293

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>>7588293
Reminds me of this gem

>>7591604
What a stupid bitch. Lolita is a fucking work of fiction. Woody Allen diddled kids IRL.

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>ctrl+f: Mordecai Richler
>0 posts


fools all of you.

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>>7588293
straight savage to be honest

>>7591683
Why is he so assblasted?

>>7591698
Edgy Easton Ellis edglord detected

>>7591668
That 9.8/10 response though

>>7591705
Never read BEE. It seems strange that Norm feels the need to defend some random authors honor though.

my writing

>>7591698
That's not being assblasted, that's having conviction.

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>>7591604
One of the responses to that tweet. I don't know why, but I laughed really hard.

>>7591711
Conviction for what?

>>7591708
BEE is an insufferable little fag on twitter.

ctrl + f

atwood

phrase not found (?!)

>>7591714
That phrase perfectly encapsulates the BEE fan.

my diary desu

>>7591722
also this, Leonard Cohen and Ondaatje

>>7591714
Jesus Christ

not out yet but I heard Norm is writing a book.

Who's the faggot now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3MeoVLaImU

>>7591722
Handmaid's Tale was mentioned. I guess Canadian cucks don't like to read.

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He will be the one who saves our entire culture.
>First world power to legalize weed
>percentage of french speaking population will double
>double investment in council for the arts
>telling Northern Gateway to fuck off
Where were you when Canadians got their country back?

>>7591840
All of that is bad you paki loving scum.

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>>7591843
>double investment in council for the arts
>bad

DUDE HALF COOTER CABINET LMAO DUDE IT'S 2015 LMAO

>voting for a nothing that literally runs on tumblr memes in a joke country filled with pooinloos

bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us bomb us

>>7591895
Calm down, son.

>>7591840
too bad your new citizens consider depictions to be haram

flubber from jeem F. Karrie

>>7591668
>diddled
Please leave Tumblr.

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>>7591840

I want a real Prime Minister not some rich playboy who bends over to muslims.

>>7591840
Friendly reminder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp_O3liJpu8

>>7594026
>canada unironically voted for this man

>>7594043
its 2015

trudeau 2 is the fucking epitome of what is wrong with this country

being canadian is like living in a small town entirely populated by hipsters with trendy haircuts

you have nothing in common with these people and the only solution is to move far away

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>>7594017
>Someone like Rob "Farley" Ford

>>7594052
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ypraEielc

This man will have to negotiate with Putin and Xi Jinping

Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan

Five Legs
The Pipes of Pan
Signals for Seers
Poems for All the Annettes
IKMQ
Deniro's Game
Bear
Permission
Urban Snow

>>7588058
Sorry.

>>7588275
Their women all have flat asses.

Leonard Cohen?

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>>7591840
How does someone like this actually get elected? How can this man be a WORLD FUCKING LEADER??

>>7594439
Because hair and weed.

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>>7588217

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/thread

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>>7588058

>>7588225

Actually took the time to read this, and it's still relevant today.

>>7588058
5th Business.

>>7591698
He's a comedian, he's being funny by taking jabs at someone who pretends to take them but probably cries himself to sleep abt it, being a narcissist and all. For great justice, Godspeed! Norm!

>>7591683
2nd joke from the top is fucking golden, Norm is literally GOAT comedian, there will never be anyone that good again

>>7588058
I'm surprised noone said Margaret Atwood and Stephen King. I know /lit/ doesn't like them but they are pretty popular and influential.

>>7591683
Glad we got to look through this window into the comedian's creative process: making 600,000 shitty boring bad jokes on Twitter for every good one in your act

>>7595279
Hi Brett

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>>7595242
>King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine.

what the fuck are you talking about?

not only are you wrong (but ok, maybe you misheard or whatever)--damn near everything he wrote was set in New England. how on earth did you arrive on King=Canadian?

>“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
―Orson Welles

>>7596173
Funny picture btw.

>>7588300

Wilde, Swift, Sterne, O'Brien, Heany. . . R U Sirius?

>>7596173
His books gave off a Canadian sort of feel. Many slang words he uses could be seen as Canadian.

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>>7594064

I remember when the real Butters used to chide me. I kind of miss that.

>>7596316
>sterne
>irish
>swift
>wilde
>heany
>good
topkek

Robertson Davies.

fuckin stan rogers mate

that guy fuckin wrote songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0CvSIhF_tA&ab_channel=KensingtonCommunications,Inc.

we're much better readers than novveliss, to be quite honest

now i'mma sip my northern harvest rhye and sing this song to the rain