/lit/ - Literature

Anyone else here feel guilty for not working full-time and dedicating working hours to reading?

In theory I know I should not feel guilty, and that I am not hurting anyone. On the other hand I feel like I am being a coward and not contributing as much as I should to my workplace (where I work part-time). Whenever I read about authors like McCarthy, Salinger or DeLillo (and countless others) spending an entire year if not several years not working at all except on their own writing I feel like I could never do that without feeling deeply ashamed of myself.

Is he the best Chicano writer ever?

Remember when he described an Eisenstein film at length? How he wishes he could spend time with cinema instead of wasting it with literary fiction. Poor Don.

>catholic wop boomer new yorker yells at the television for 400 pages

p-postmodernism!

>>13025736
Has a communications degree, which doesn't really count.

>Journalism has replaced the novel. The Great American Novel is before us now, being published serially. It's the collective writing by the intrepid journalists documenting the Trump era. They deserve every respect.

What did he mean by this?

Having trouble finding any notable new-ish works besides Don Dellio.

But I believe as a movement it’s also dead.

What's his best work?

Who is the biggest hack writer of all time and why is it Don Delillo?

I enjoyed his work a lot more than I had expected, since I'm not usually one for post-modernist literature since English is not my first language and the cryptic diction as well as the neologisms fly over my head. I can't read Pynchon or the Gassmeister for more than 20 pages.

I know DeLillo is not as high-brow as Pynchon, Gaddis etc. but I was wondering what you guys thought of him. Libra is my favorite of his, it had me on the edge of my seat for the entire novel. I can't put my finger on it but it was a very thrilling read.

My list would go Libra > White Noise > Underworld > Mao II >>>>>Americana. Haven't read the rest yet.

>>7895679
Pynchon
Delillo
Wallace

Where to start with Delillo?

Is he best fiction writer alive?

Let's talk about Don Delillo.
Thoughts on his prose?
Favorite work?

can someone please recommend authors similar to delillo, pynchon and vollmann? i know they are often labelled as postmodern writers, but i don't know of any other unifying terms beside that. so, basically im looking for any other writers in the style of those three

>>6603726

The worst thing that happened when Inherent Vice came out was that I saw the novel at an airport, I wonder if the same will happen to DFW? I can't imagine how bad this film will polarize people.

But yeah, the movie is going to target the audience you exactly you described and teenage girls will pretend to love him just because of how much John Green talks about him.

I say we make Don DeLillo our new Post-Modern king.

where do I start with Delillo?

I generally like modernist stuff more than the PoMo i've delved into (which is admittedly only DFW and Timmy Pinecone).

I read some of this guy's prose today, and I fucking loved it. Reminded me a lot of Pynchon. Where should I start with his works? the Greeks?

Why can't this guy write? Why does everything he publish have this try hard feel to it?