This is the best living writer.

>>9579317
Fuck off, Norm.

That's not Anne Carson.

>>9579319

She's great too. Munro is the best living writer though, and the best short-story writer of all time.

>>9579327
Flannery O'Connor shits all over Munro's stupid fucking face desu

>>9579367

ahahahahaha, okay retard.

Not Vargas Llosa

>>9579367
she's dead retard

I hate that /lit/ culture makes this somehow an edgy controversial opinion. Munro's great.

>>9579820
prove it

>inb4 liberal media outlet

Based Norm destroyed that hack Margaret Atwood.

>>9579317
I doubt it.

Pynchon, McCarthy, and Wolfe are all still alive. At least it's commonly believed that Pynchon is still alive.

>>9579317

I like you,OP.

What are your favorite books by her? And favorite short-stories?

>>9579367

flannery o'connor is the biggest meme pushed by the tokenists on this site trying to name a female writer i swear to fucking god

>>9580168
Haven't seen her mentioned once outside of this thread

>>9579375
patrician detected

>>9579317
not even one of the bloom 4

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>>9579317

*teleports behind you*

>>9580175

how new are you

>>9580193
Been here 12 years

>>9579830
This

>>9580183
He's probably the only writer ITT that will be discussed after 5 years

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But this guy is still alive, anon.

>>9579317
Is there a buzzword for the equivalent of edgy when it comes to male writers like Palahniuk and Rothfuss, but for overly sentimental and banal crap like Munro and Picoult? Grandma-core is kinda longwinded.

>>9579319
wtf this is the fourth time I've heard Carson be called the greatest living writer. Is it a meme? I've only read Autobiography or Red and I enjoyed it but, really?

>>9580168
nah dude, she's actually great. no memeing no sjwing. She was legit. Maybe you're not familiar with her work?

>>9580168
except she's actually good? and i think you're mistaking her for woolf, who's named a lot more frequently

>>9579317
dat not pinecone

>>9579367
>read The Violent Bear it Away
>it's annoying as shit and also boring

>>9581638
he's written one good book, M&D, and V are forgettable crap, the rest is lower than garbage. Not denying Gravity's Rainbow is probably the most important post-WW2 book but he was able to do that once.

>>9579317
She's too "our eyes met in the Depends aisle" for me

>>9581662
Trying way too hard.

>>9579367
Flannery O'Connor is overrated. She had no restraint. Cynical juvenile core.

>>9582418
>Flannery O'Connor was smarter and more talented than me. Better read too. Truly my intellectual superior in all respects.
ftfy

>>9581621
>But this guy is still alive,

He does appear to be breathing, but does he really count as 'alive'?

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>>9579317
nope.

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sorry, no

>>9584352
Is it better to start with Garp or Meany?

>>9584481
they're both great to start with, i personally prefer garp: it's the book that got me into reading

>>9583064
Is that Clive Barker? He's overrated.

>>9579855
Who is Norm? I dislike Atwood so this might be interesting.

>>9579875
I always appreciate seeing Wolfe compared to Pynchon and YeCarthy. I hope you're being sincere.

>>9582418
What does this even mean?

>>9580183
This, nobody can argue against it.

>>9579317
That is a very risky affirmation. Obviously she's an excellent writer, but better than George R. R. Martin for example?

>>9579317
That's not Cormac McCarthy.

T B H dostoevsky and tolstoy are still alive in my heart therefore they are the best

>>9585555
quads confirmed

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>>9579317

Where to start with her?

What are her best books?

What are the best short stories?

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>>9579317
It's not a competition

>>9581634
are you trying to imply that woolf is overrated? baka