yo /lit/ are there any good living writers? everything I have

Dead authors aren't actually good. We only say they are out of fear of being haunted.

me

>>7588406
link your stuff

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Looking at the list of bestsellers, it seems books are now no more than clickbait on paper and vanity projects. Stick to the classics and hope that a voice comes out of the murk.

being dead, white and a man is one of the requirements to be able to write well

>>7588386

Living Meme Quartet: Pinecone, McCarthy, Delillo, Roth.

Pinecone on the oboe, obv.

Delillo and Roth are alive

I love Mary Karr, she writes memoirs and has a fucking great one from 2009 called Lit

>>7588386
Just good?

McCarthy
Zadie Smith
Franzen
Gass
Houellebecq
DeLillo

I mean, you'll probably like one from this list.

>>7588386
McCarthy, Wolfe, Litell, Ligotti, John Irving is pleb-tier but he writes some comfy stuff.

>>7588427
I've only read All the Pretty Horses by McCarthy, and honestly, I was pretty disappointed. I found the story underwhelming and the prose not far from that of a fantasy-novel (that is, it reminded me a lot Terry Brooks, whose prose I used to love desperately). Most of the novel never really struck me. The only scene that really mattered to me was when the main character visited his old house-servant's grave.

I really want to hear why that books is so great to others, and I mean no judgement or ignorance. Just honest reasons to help me understand what I had missed.

>>7588442
>John Irving is pleb-tier but he writes some comfy stuff.
This is pretty much how I feel about Ian McEwan and Mitch Albom.

>>7588450
The Border Trilogy is honestly pretty banal. Read Blood Meridian or Child of God for something that should comprehensively chill you to your core.

I harp on about this a lot, but the precision and economy of McCarthy's description is really remarkable. Most of the time he writes as if he's just stating self-evident facts about the world, but when he describes something remarkable his purple prose are just brilliant.

>>7588386

poets:

John Ashbery
WS Merwin
Geoffrey Hill
Henri Cole
me

novelists:

arguably DeLillo
like it or not, Roth
Gass

>>7588460

and I hope you'll read this post in that dumb Star Wars Episode 1 Red Letter Media voice like I'm doing right now for some reason.

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Such is the way of things, anon.

One of the main qualities of greatness, as it's decided by the majority, is how well a work withstands the test of time.

For writers, sadly, that's often longer than a lifetime.

I'm certain that good works will dribble out of the woodwork, like beads of sap, as time wanders on.

The authors will sprout from their graves, glassy-eyed as ever, and perform their little jig.

Perhaps they were buried with their typewriter, and were able to churn out a few more books while the world was waiting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNg5_Jtd8k

>>7588450
Read Blood Meridian or Suttree. Those are the books he spent decades writing in barns and shacks.

>>7588386

Ellis is great

pynchon
houellebecq but only in "map nd teritorry" (?)
zadie smith (some fragments of white teeth and NW actually great not oly good)
maybe knausgard

>>7588386
László Krasznahorkai
Marilynne Robinson
Ismail Kadare
Michal Ajvaz
Umberto Eco

I thought Tao Lin was considered pretty good?

>>7588710
>>7588434


Zadie Smith is way too ridiculously fucking attractive, I'm always afraid to read books by attractive people.

>>7588427
>Meme
You deserve to get shot in a leg.

>>7588958
Attractive people are scary. Never trust them.

Nicanor Parra
Javier Marias

>>7588416
reddit pls go

What works by Roth are worth checking out? And is anything post-Underworld Delillo notable?

>>7588958
>>7588980
why?

Celine and Mayakovsky were also really attrctive imo, great authors

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>>7588980
>>7588958

>>7589195
Marlon James is the shit.

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>>7588405
This is a family board. Stop being so spooky.

>>7588386
There have been tons of contemporary author threads recently. This years Nobel and man booker lists were fucking strong and most people who actually read the works were and have posted are very enthusiastic. Houellebecq is becoming a cornerstone of European satire. Knusgard is becoming a meme, and the old favorites like Roth and McCarthy are geniuses.

Stop reading summer reading list tier books.

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One of the best prose writers the English language has seen is still alive. Bask in his glory while it lasts, it might not be for much longer.

>>7588450
All the Pretty Horses is literally my least favorite of all of his novels. The Crossing is infinitely better.

>>7588386
Gass is the best living author; moreover, he is the best author of the 20th century.

>>7589100
American pastoral and sabbaths theatre are his great works IMO. Portney's Complaint is a "classic" that I found base and not fun to read. The human stain is a lesser book, not bad but more NYT best seller tier

>>7589263
*noy

>>7589100
The Dying Animal. It teaches you about the degeneracy of post-Woodstock America.

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>>7588420
protestant and well off doesn't hurt either

>>7588958
>>7588980
Would you read my novel, /lit/, or am I too pretty for you?

Isabelle Allende
Kamel Daoud
Jhumpa Lahiri
Thomas Pynchon
Zadie Smith
Donna Tartt
Hanya Yanagihara

>>7589186
yeah she writes some bomb ass poems.
translations are usually good too

>>7588386
Tom Wolfe is still alive, so yeah.

>>7589209
>tells anon to stop being spooky
>posts pic of skeleton for most maximum spooks
Shiggy diggy.

Martin Walser a very good contemporary German writer.

>>7588942
Go to bed tao

>>7589332
these morphs can make anyone look similar

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Barrett Brown.

He's very funny and perceptive. Right now he's in jail for exposing shady government dealings.

Unfortunately he hasn't written much and his books are hard to find.

Now that he's in jail he's got nothing else to do but wrote for the next five years , so hopefully he gets busy

Here's some of his writings from prison. The one on Orwell is hilarious.

http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/author/barrettbrown/

>>7588386
Pynchon isn't dead. I'll go with him.

>>7588386
Of course there are. They just haven't been canonized yet.

It's a lot harder to enjoy something if your opinion hasn't been founded for you beforehand.

Knausgaard

>>7589234
hell be fine

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>>7588386
Disregard all these fags
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The only correct answer is the author of the fourth part of the meme tetralogy
>>7588942

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>>7588629

Yeah, dead people are generally peaceful, laid-back people with a lot of knowledge to give.

>>7593289
3.5/5 at its best