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I'm looking for what I don't know what to call other than "lively essayists". I just want to read exuberant prose and pieces with some kind of deep feeling. Something sort of like the work of Lester Bangs or the essays of DFW.
I've just come off reading Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album. I enjoyed them, and they are exuberant now and again, but there is a certain lack of panache or elan or whatever you'll call it in the prose.
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Even someone like Nietzsche is similar to what I have in mind.
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This may be a cliche answer, but have you read any Hunter S Thompson?
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>>9508975
Came here to post this. For all his faults, HST is a genius at exuberance. Also, since we're talkint about Thompson, Transmetropolitan is a great comic which excels in absurd levels of exageration
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>>9508813
Read moby dick FFS
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Saul Bellow—a minor essayist but his novels are nothing if not exuberant
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Camille Paglia
Tom Wolfe (at times)
Roth (essayistic novelist)
Updike/Nabokov (straight novelists)
Saul Bellow (come on now)
Kierkegaard
Christgau
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Swift's Modest Proposal
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>mfw I discover this is all I look for in literature & I don't care about ideas or depth at all
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>>9509089
Hillbilly goes over to his new neighbors house. "Howdy neighbor, I'm throwin a party to welcome you to the holler. There's gonna be a whole lotta drinkin, a whole lotta dancin, and a whole lotta screwin."
The neighbor says, "sounds like fun, whaduh I bring?"
Hillbilly says, "You can bring anything ya want, just gonna be you and me."
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