/lit/ - Literature

>2023
>I am forgotten

Wiki doesn't say he graduated. Also, no MFA

I'm looking for the author who successes John Delillo and David Foster Wallace. Is Joshua Cohen good enough? Which one of his books should I start with?

>Why am I here again? Oh yeah the murders.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/stories-as-prayer-a-conversation-between-joshua-cohen-and-harold-bloom/

>genuinely compelling contemporary writers who aren’t Tao fucking Lin

>Joshua Cohen

>>10101455
>"His stuff?! Stuff!?! These g-ddamn goyim! His stuff is profound, witty, complex, but above all it has heart. Heart. Yeah, that's right. It's the best there is. It's the best on the market, it's top-shelf stuff. And you, goy, are gonna buy it or else you're a dumb dumb. Got that? Learn your place."

All I want is your acceptance.

>>9745402

>looking forward to anything from this yuppie hack

josh pls go i know its u.

>>9669790

>posting this nebbish bougie heeb as an example of exceeding success in the field of literature

o i am laffin

oh right, the murders.

mfw I realize pic related is the voice of our generation.

>>8745840

>sitting through 800+ pages of a bougie jew kid trying to neurotically ramble his way to a masterpiece

no fuckin thank you. yikes.

>>8691397

>Even on a purely aesthetic level Islam is gross; so slavish and beige.

when young snarky lit posters talk geopolitics

>>8121969

Get a load of this sophomoric precociousness right here.

I want to smack the tastefully refined glasses off your face and poke you in the eye.

Help me /lit/ - to me, this interview is extremely, painfully pretentious:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122228/its-time-writing-took-something-back-internet

>Consider the Arabic numerals: they encode integers (i.e. 6, the numeral, contains six ones: 1+1+1+1+1+1). And language, for me, operates similarly: each word in the book was chosen not only for its meaning, but also for its historical referents—there are “secondary” meanings packed into my sentences in the same way individual integers are packed into “numbers.” The novelist is the person who chooses what “state” each bit is “in”—and is free to flip at his/her discretion.

In this case, he just throws around a few "Internet words" (integers! bits! flipping!) to hide basic truths (words can have a context-based secondary meaning!!!)

Or am I not seeing something? Has anyone read this book?