/lit/ - Literature

>>15164170
I liked The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole. Has anyone read the Moviegoer by Walker Percy? Was it depressing or more light even though dealing with deep topics?

>>15164170
Do you want the ones everyone knows about like Faulkner or something a little more obscure?

>>15164766
I've already read Faulkner. I want something similar but more obscure

>>15164170
look homeward, angel

>>15164766
What does Florida have that is interesting? That state is both Southern and not-Southern at the same time I would think this clash would promote creativity.

>>15164170
Flannery O'Connor

>>15164170

William Gass

>>15164692
I was really underwhelmed by The Moviegoer
Babby’s first existential crisis

>>15164833
Harry Crews has some Florida stuff, though he’s mostly Georgia.

>>15165010
Ok then I wouldn't like it. I was mostly interested in it because I keep seeing it on lists.
>>15165020
Never heard of him I don't know if I'm interested but I like this quote.
>I've never begun a novel that I knew how it ended. I just start and try to find out what it is I think about whatever it is I am writing about.

>>15164170
what a shitty pic OP

>>15164170
Unironically this. Good book, short read. Has some beautiful language in it.

>>15164833
Like all southern and not-southern things this clash is weighted very much toward the non-southern side of things (ie: federalist assimilation). Hemingway, Stephen Crane, Thomas Ligotti and Harriet Beecher Stowe have all lived in and written about Florida from a northern perspective.

Cornac McCarthy’s books like Suttree and Child of God set in the Knoxville region.

>>15164170

Sophie's Choice is proto-Confederates saving pregnant Anne Frank

>>15164833
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a good “Florida” book