/lit/ - Literature

Cormac McCarthy's not dead yet and he'll probably be read well into the next century.

>>16042819
Best book to start on him? I liked the movie No Country of Old Men. Is the book better?

This is not a great age for fiction. Fiction is too frivolous and commercialized for its own good. Not only is capitalism to blame its also what makes a lot of the nonfiction so much more prescient. In a hundred years time? If we make that far, Permaculture from Mollison and Holmgren will probably be up there as vastly more important than any fiction writers

>>16042807
Houellebecq, like it or not

>>16042828
It's okay. Blood Meridian is his masterpiece, The Road is his most accessible work.

You can read the other three of Bloom's "contemporary American canon", in Pyncheon, DeLillo and Roth. Roth died a couple of years ago, but these four are pretty solid.

This is not a great age for fiction. Fiction is too frivolous and commercialized for its own good. Not only is capitalism to blame its also what makes a lot of the nonfiction so much more prescient. In a hundred years time? If we make it that far, works like Permaculture from Mollison and Holmgren will probably be up there as vastly more important than any fiction writers

Sally Rooney

I will.

>>16042807
Stephen King will probably be remember because Holywood lacks creativity and they will keep remaking movie based on his book forever. Just like Lovecraft's.
Your waifu is autistic

>>16042852
Fuck off tranny tripfag