Which non-white-male contemporary authors would you recommend /lit/?
Trying to broaden my horizons and embrace diversity more than I have been.
Pic related.
John Green
either this >>8737249 or DFW
>>8737249
Isn't he a w***e m**e?
>>8737246
>pretending to not just want a circle-jerk about how shit women and nonwhites are
Kill yourself
>>8737255
Please take racist / sexist discourse elsewhere. Thanks!
>>8737252
Are you assuming his ethnic orientation?
>>8737256
>tfw just applied for janitor job to delete shitty bait threads like these
>>8737258
>janitor
>deleting threads
>>8737257
No, that's why I am asking. I apologize deeply if I offended you or any members of your community.
>>8737260
Janitors CAN...
Remove threads, replies and images on their assigned board(s).
The days of identity politics on /lit/ will finally be over
>>8737265
>Janitors CAN...
>Remove threads
Is that new?
>>8737246
that whale poem is pretty funny though
>>8737246
And this is why no one outside of NYC likes NYC.
>>8737304
They're liberals. FUCKING DISGUSTING SPECIMENS
Glad to live in rural Texas
>>8737312
>I like being irrelevant
ftfy
>>8737352
>New Yorker thinks that anything that doesn't have to do with New York is "irrelevant."
see >>8737304
>>8737370
It's great living in NY actually.
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>>8737377
Man, I actually vomited a little.
>>8737377
Nice copypasta
>>8737377
are you one of the background characters in Taipei?
>>8737258
Leftists love censorship because they fear the Truth
Outside of McCarthy I'm struggling to recommend any living authors who are even white men. Resign contemporary ""literature"" to the fucking bin where it belongs.
>>8737246
I clearly need to lurk more because I have no clue who Mira Gonzalez is, but holy shit her twitter records from November 8th are the best. Trump-induced SJW meltdown fantastic.
>>8737498
Hating contemporary literature and only liking dead writers is a classic sign a middlebrow pleb btw
>>8737246
Ryu Murakami, he would make Eli Roth vomit.
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Start with Chimimanda Adichie and Zadie Smith (as seen on OP pic)
Please post that pic everyday
Maybe it will give me the final kick to kill myself
Just read the latin american canon
fuck white people
>>8737246
Cardinal Robert Sarah
>>8737657
unironically this
>>8737657
'White people' complaining about 'white people'. Literature is dead. We all want to consume 'authentic' subjectivity. But if you are deliberately trying to be 'authentic' you reify authenticity, destroying it. Upper middle 'creative'/media classes (a race in themselves) realize their life is boring and fake, so they look to an idealized 'authentic' other, in the process instrumentalizing this other and turning it into a reflection of their own neuroses. As a result the world ends up more boring and fake than before.
I was raised by white parents, but I have dark skin. The best of both worlds.
>>8737246
How contemporary do you mean, OP?
Obvious recs would be Drown by Junot Diaz and White Teeth by Zadie Smith. But if the recently deceased count you have to check out Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives. Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is great. Albert Murray's Train Whistle Guitar is phenomenal if you've ever wondered what Joycean word play would look like in the context of Alabama. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk is an ingenious postmodern whodunit set in 16th century Istanbul and featuring a cast of nutty miniaturists. I've never read any Murakami but Kafka On the Shore is pretty well received if you wanted to start with him.
I don't know OP what are you looking for I could ramble out a huge list of non-white male authors but it might be more helpful to you if I knew what your tastes were.
>>8737265
Doing God's work anon
Mira Gonzales is actually pretty cool, she's culturally white though. So according to her she's shit.
She only writes about white girl problems.
>>8737856
/lit/ confirmed kill, no, sorry, 4chan confirmed kill.
>>8737697
>you have to check out
I really don't appreciate that sort of dictatorial language. It's very disappointing to read that sort of thing in 2016.
i like tao
>>8737312
I live in urban Texas. None of us really have a problem with rural areas being conservative. You should come hang out in one of the cities sometime, they're all pretty great.