/lit/ - Literature

Can someone recommend me some fantasy? I just don't know what to read anymore. I simply cannot get into anime/YA tier stuff like Sanderson's at all, and I've read most other epic fantasy stuff, from Malazan to Second Apocalypse, and I've checked out most of the stuff listed in our image compilations as well.
Is there nothing new out? Surely there must've been something new these past 10 years.. I could even read some franchise stuff or literal fanfic if it isn't awful. But I just tried to pick up one of those WH Skaven novels and the writing was atrociously bad. It's almost like the author went out of his way to structure every fucking sentence exactly the same length and drive me crazy, with the most generic descriptions I've come across on the level of a D&D session transcription.

When I started writing I had a serious problem with letting the dialogue be and moving past it. I felt the need to express the way in which every character said their lines in the most autistically minute way that's probably better suited for directing actors. However, now slowly moved past that, and now I barely add any modifiers after the lines at all, and it reads a thousand times better.
Following that, I tried to work on my exposition and ended up with these bloated pieces of writing that literally started with one or two pages of mind-numbing exposition. But in time I've whittled that one page down to a paragraph, and now I've started to spread that paragraph out amid the action over several pages.
Still... I have one problem that I can't seem to fix, and I know that this is my pleb showing. I have a real hard time describing environments. Often times I find myself not knowing the right words to use at all. And if it's not that, then I'm not sure what exactly is important. When I made the conscious decision to go back and read other authors I realized that they, for the most part, use very minimal descriptions and manage to connect them with the action.
Not so much
>the room was old and dark and covered in cobwebs
As
>The floorboards groaned under his weight as he stepped inside, ducking under the cobwebs that spread over the ceiling and peering in the gloom.
Whatever, it's bad, and I'm bad, but I hope you get what I mean. Most authors manage to convey what an environment is like without stopping the story in its tracks in order to detail everything that's in there.
I know, this is blog tier and I've tarried for long enough, but here are my actual questions:
1. How do you know what to focus on when describing a place? Do you really have to hit all the senses or do you focus on what's most important?
2. Is there even any point in describing places if they aren't integral to the story in some way? I don't just mean plot, but perhaps in support of the aesthetics the work wants to convey.
3. How can you single out what elements of any place are best focused on in order to bring out the thematic of the work, and how can you learn how to best describe them in support of that?
4. What authors do this really well that you recommend?