I'm looking a book filled with melancholy and the American

Baudrillard, America

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?

>>9270352
My diary desu

my diary desu

Sironia, Texas

Train Dreams

Lonesome Dove

Paris, France

Just watch spaghetti westerns, they are more /lit/ than most books

You're looking for Steinbeck. Check out East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, and Travels with Charley.

In Cold Blood

>>9270403
is this good? It's like, long and shit

>>9270451
thanks for the suggestion, but not quite so much. I love Steinbeck, but I'm looking for something with a bit more of a contemporary setting, not necessarily dealing with the struggles of the people against the unforgiving terrain, but their isolation from it

>>9270352

pretty much any book by John Kerouac maybe?

Raymond Carver. Unfortunately his descriptions aren't particularly florid, but the mood is there

>>9270352
Lolita tbqhwy

>>9270352
I haven't read it but Americana by Delillo sounds fit for what you're looking for.

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by Gass as well.

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>>9270352
delillo, raymond carver, franzen, maybe updike and steinbeck, john cheever, richard yates, zadie smith

>>9270647
HA! Those doogs got SPOOKED

>>9270499
this

>>9270526
read storie Where I Calling From

>>9270769
sorry, meant to quote this
>>9270694

https://itunes.apple.com/hu/book/voronoi-horizons/id1143021888

>>9270355
this

I don't have any books like that, but try paintings of Edward Hopper

>>9271712
YES!

Hello America by JG Ballard
anything at all by Raymond Carver
Hart Crane

>>9270462
Hard Rain Falling - Carpenter

Winesburg, ohio by sherwood anderson

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>>9270352
Listen to pic related and Nebraska

>>9270352

Can I ask where you got the pic related? It reminds me of an album cover. And it's also stirring a story inside of me; I like the bleakness of it all.

>>9273638
probably from the daily mail, because that's how they format their images

>>9273641

There's a thread about you on here. You are becoming a meme.

>>9273651
not that anon, i want to know morw about htis though

>>9273651
it's just one guy, maybe two, who started using /lit/ when i wasn't on here as much. they will give up in a couple of days

Glad to see Carver getting some love. He's pure Americana. I only discovered him recently but there's a lot of understated genius in his stories. I reached the title story of Cathedral today and I know I'm in for something special.

Angels by Denis Johnson

Cormac McCarthy?
Larry McMurtry?
Stephen Harrigan?

>>9270610
This or >>9270612 are the best options

>>9271712
yep this is what I was going to suggest

Watch Wild at Heart by David Lynch

Sam Shepard

>>9273541
+1

>>9274862
better yet, read the book

>>9274969
love this meme

>>9274972
Do you? This sub-forum is about literature, not movies. And it so happens that the novel Wild At Heart is based on (of the same name) is really good in itself. Stop being so ignorant

>>9274949
thank you my friend, few know anderson and it's a shame

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Michel Butor

>>9270352
On the Road by Kerouac

>>9270352
Watch the documentary Gothic King Cobra