Who is America's foremost prose stylist?

>>9249739
Gene Wolfe

>>9249739
The man you've pictured of course. I own many of his books but I just found a Russian site where you can read his latest work on browser: http://www.rulit.me/books/eyes-novellas-and-stories-read-418954-1.html

>>9249739
Ben Stiller

>>9249769
Yes

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>>9250058

America has produced a great number of stylists, so it's a matter of taste, really. I'd go with Melville myself, but there are a lot of good answers.

>>9249739
I read Omensetter's Luck. It was so boring I wanted to take my own life. I had to remember that the book would end and then maybe, just maybe, life could be good again.

>>9250412
Melville is the only answer

Kathy Acker

>>9250522
I don't know who that is but she's a woman so get lost

>>9250550
that tells us a lot about you, and nothing about her

>>9250412
Obviously Melville, but I think OP wants living writers. In that case I'd say John Crowley.

Probably Bret Easton Ellis /s

Depends. I'd say Burroughs, in a way, just because (personal interpretation) he tried to reintegrate the totality and messiness of our hermeneutical experience with the world in a codified format like that of the novel

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>>9250522
kekeld hard
Acker is simply an unreadable mess who probably masturbated at how 'edgy' she was

Le running sentences fuck punctuation man

>>9249739
Gass's prose is, if i dare to say it, quite flatulent

>>9252462
AKA Franz Kafka