Who are the /lit/-approved authors still alive and producing

why can't you approve an author yourself you fucking lemming

>>9977547
Maybe because I'm just looking for recommendations from somewhat-likeminded people, you fucking nigger. KYS yourself ASAP.

>>9977580
>somewhat-likeminded people
You don't know anyone here

nobody does

stop living in a shit-fantasy

>>9977537
Dmitry Bykov, Salman Rushdie and Vollmann are not too meme-y. Vollmann is on the verge, though.

Also a shit-ton of asians, just google the literary awards of the last five years.

>>9977537

I'll stand up for Franzen even though /lit/ doesn't care for him. Houllebecq is /r9k/ with a Thesaurus. My boy Knausgaard is fucking awesome, he's basically the "Airing of Grievances" part of Festivus over the course of thousands of pages

>>9977587
>You need to know people on a first-name-basis to agree with their train of thought
I'll pray for a cure for your mental illness

>>9977599
>I'll stand up for Franzen even though /lit/ doesn't care for him
I read Freedom and wasn't all that moved. Is anything else better?

>>9977537
The theoretical problem with spoonfeeding is that it increases entropy within the closed system. This is somewhat obvious to any outside observer: the character, or profile of the recepient inevitably becomes a linear combination of already present profiles. Two emergent phenomena are pendulum motion and/or tumorous redistribution. Pendulum motion is characterised by a collective attempt of the spoonfed to build their unique identity, which can only be performed through contrarianism - as such, all present consensuses periodically switch to their negative form, which prohibits any actual change of their contents. Synthethis becomes impossible, and opinions on any issue conform to a strict axis rather than being diverse in quality. The second phenomena is tumorous redistribution, which manifests in more popular opinions merging together and completely pushing out the rest - and at that point, the pendulum usually starts. Those two effects invariably lead to a community's demise. As such, spoonfeeding is undoubtedly harmful, as most other examples of direct transplants of knowledge or institutions.

>>9977599
Purity was hilariously shitty. It was like if DFW wrote IJ in 2015 - it reeks of trying to fit with the times and ending up just late enough.

Houllebecq is unexpectedly great.

>>9977609
syntax-only modalities of communication are unexpectedly deceptive in conveying any essential personal qualities

level playing field, ..fantasy of the highest order to be sure, but still a fantasy

>>9977616
Excessively verbose but a genuinely interesting analysis. Thanks anon.

>>9977648
>>9977641
>Samefagging this hard

>>9977624
Will look into Houllebecq

>>9977616
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_xdvn52As

>>9977537
Ruth Ozeki for English/American lit

let me redbull you
Knausgaard - moeshit mixed with philosophical platitudes, a pseud magnet
Houllebecq - Andrea Dworkin for r9k, thinly veiled political pamphleteering
Vollmann - don't have an opinion on him, remember opening a random page of Atlas and getting second hand embarassment from it
Franzen - lol
Rushdie - has-been with two decent novels
Cesar Aira - passable

>>9977616
saved

>>9977537
I like George Saunders. Idk if he's been mentioned in this thread and I don't care enough to check.

Start with the 400 pound CEO, fun, short read that really encompasses his style.

>>9977616
Have you recently read Hegel or something? Your writing is pretentious as fuck even through I found some insight. Work on it.

>>9977537
Krasznahorkai gets my vote

Tao Lin...