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Best currently living authors that are out there living interesting lives?
Think Hemmingway or Camus, but contemporary.
is pic rel the only example? (no not memeing)

>> No.11285283
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>> No.11285294

>>11285255
Donald Trump

>> No.11285296

Ellis hasnt been relevant for decades. The only decent work hes done recently is the opening to Lunar Park but then you get into the rest of the story and it's Retread City

>> No.11285304

>inb4 palahniukpost

>> No.11285581

>>11285255
Oh, he's out for sure!

>>11285283
>tfw hardly know any other contemporary authors

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>>11285294
Based.

>> No.11287844

>>11287835
feigned aesthetics, try again, J.

>> No.11287853

>>11285283
I like him better now that he’s transformed into a goblin. He’s easier to identify with.

>> No.11287921

>>11287835
t. Tesla?

>> No.11288066

>>11285296
Yeah, had he never written American Psycho few people would give a fuck about him. Less Than Zero is pretty good but he would be one of many "okay" authors that has one or two good books if it weren't for AP (which is a masterpiece).

>> No.11288174

>>11285255
John Grishim
James Paterson
Clive Cussler

>> No.11288290

>>11285255
Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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>>11285255
>Think Hemmingway or Camus

>> No.11288423

>>11288290
On the strength of Melancholy of Resistance, yeah, but I went into Seiobo after that and motherfucker needs an editor. No idea what his life is like.

>> No.11289283

>>11288320
Problem Aussieposter?

>> No.11289289

>>11285255
Pynchon:)

>> No.11289301

>>11289289
The most interesting thing about his life is when he occasionally leaves his apartment to have lunch with other middlebrow writers.

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>>11289301
>Pynchon
>Middlebrow

>> No.11289311

>>11289306
Absolutely.

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>>11289311
Wrong.