Who was the greatest 20th century American writer, and why

I unironically think it's Fitzgerald. And I disliked Gatsby.

The reason it's J.D. Salinger is "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."

This story is god-tier.

>>9664636
>B.J. Salinger

That's not how you say Kurt Vonnegut though.

>>9664665
Yeah, but there are Cheever and Hemingway short stories on that level.
Actually, I prefer A Clean Well Lighted Place to that.

Salinger lol gtfooh.

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>>9664711
Fuck off to another thread, casual.

What strange spelling of Jack London

>>9664723
>tfw unironically love london
Sucks that even his best works have huge swaths of filler stuff. The Sea Wolf has one of the best intros ever imo

>>9664721
Enjoy your whiny juvenile jew "fiction"

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>>9664746
>jew

>>9664754
Yeah yeah yeah, let me know when you kike on a stick worshipping cucks stop bowing down to the inbred semitic snakes trying to destroy you and then we'll discuss deus vulting.

>>9664658
Is /lit/ really contrarian enough to shit on Fitzgerald?

>>9664810
Do you really have to ask that?

>>9664810
Just Gatsby. Tender is the Night was pristine

>>9664754
Deus vult

>not one mention of Faulkner

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>>9664636
*blocks your path*

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>>9664636
because you're a 17 year old faggot who thinks they're holden caulfield

>>9669406
>he's only read Catcher in the Meme

>>9664636
because he boned 18 yos

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>>9670814
Why wouldn't you really if you could.

>>9667808
Either him, or Pynchon.

>>9664636
>why was it J.D. Salinger?

because every american highschool student is forced to read it. for many it will be the only novel they ever seriously read.

also, saul bellow ftw

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>>9664754
"jesus is a trick on niggers" - flannery o'connor