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Why is /lit/ so fixated on books written by dead people? Melville?

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Why is /lit/ so fixated on books written by dead people?

Melville? DEAD
Nabokov? DEAD
Dostoevsky? DEAD
Hesse? DEAD
Borges? DEAD
Joyce? DEAD
Orwell? DEAD
Kafka? DEAD
Salinger? DEAD
Tolstoy? DEAD
Bolano? DEAD
David Foster Wallace? DEAD

Hey /lit/, name one piece of good fiction written in the past year.
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Name me one piece of good literature written in 1247 without using Google.
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>>8387170
I don't care if they're alive or dead, as long as they're white men who aren't liberals
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>>8387170
>DFW
>dead
He faked his suicide to become John Green
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>>8387170
I don't care if they're alive or dead, as long as they're black women who aren't conservatives
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Hystopia by David Means
Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Eyes by William H Gass

I read the Man Booker Long List every year desu lad
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>>8387199
Iaughed. Good job
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>>8387170

>Why is /lit/ so fixated on outstanding literature?
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