/lit/ - Literature

What does /lit/ think of Steinbeck? Lean, rich, masculine prose. Love of nature and the simple life. No over-written, auto-fascinated subjects of the modernist titty-twisting bullshit new guard.

Says everything about everything that prospective writers today are more interested in emulating hacks like Joyce and Pynchon than Steinbeck.

>sits next to you at a bar
>orders grape juice
>slips his feet off
>receives grape juice
>tips the bartender with a pearl and a copy of 'the communist manifesto'
>uses an old worn copy of 'the sound and the fury' as a coaster
>stares cross-eyed into the distance
>takes a sip of grape juice and looks at you
>"Did you know that poor people and hispanics are the only two things worth writing about?"