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Anonymous Mon Jun 20 22:25:21 2011 No.1865764 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/ I'm pretentious fuck who would like to know what obscure writers are good to read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 22:27:21 2011 No.1865770 tao lin oh wait are you he?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 22:27:21 2011 No.1865771 Hemingway ...but not that one. The one you don't know about.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 22:27:21 2011 No.1865768 You clearly have nothing about which you can be pretentious, so this post doesn't make any sense to me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 22:28:21 2011 No.1865777 >>1865768 I buy only classic lit and will not buy writers who I know are not classic fiction writers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 22:29:21 2011 No.1865779 >>1865771 I was into him before he was famous.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 22:29:21 2011 No.1865781 Mayakovsky.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 22:57:21 2011 No.1865864 Stephen King is good. Dan Brown. There are these really cool books about a little kid who finds out that he is a wizard. They are written so that anyone can understand them so you know they have to be good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 23:29:21 2011 No.1865933 >>1865864 Dan Brown and Stephan King are mainstream crappy writers. I'm being serious, I want to know more obscure writers like the writers in the new york book review classics.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 23:32:21 2011 No.1865943 pseudo-eratosthenes

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 23:33:21 2011 No.1865946 >>1865781 swag

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 23:42:21 2011 No.1865958 File: 739 KB, 161x120, 1306140876356.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] tristan tzara eugen ionesco edward albee Daniil Kharms

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 20 23:44:21 2011 No.1865967 Julian Zabargos that is all

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 21 00:01:21 2011 No.1865985 Terry Southern Thomas Lovell Beddoes Christian Morgenstern Willem Ellschott Karin Boye Italo Svevo Jane Bowles Sir Thomas Browne Raymond Roussel AM Homes Georges Perec Fernando Pessoa Mario de Sa-Carneiro

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 21 00:06:21 2011 No.1865989 >>1865985 I've heard of some of them italo svevo wrote confessions of Zeno.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 21 00:37:21 2011 No.1866034 >>1865770 Goodnight Tao

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 21 00:44:21 2011 No.1866052 >>1865933 nyrb is swagadelic. dalkey archive press has the most obscure American swag though. I've read so many good books they've published that at this point I'll buy a book just for having their logo on the spine

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 21 00:48:21 2011 No.1866066 >>1865985 All of these writers are good That fifth section of Browne's "Urn Burial" astounds me every time I read it, it's just such an incredibly display of mastery over the English language

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 21 00:52:21 2011 No.1866073 Mike Carey's "Felix Castor" series "John Dies At The End" by David Wong Not the MOST obscure, but I've never met anyone else IRL who'd heard of them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 21 00:54:21 2011 No.1866083 Thomas Love Peacock For fantasy, John Barlough is almost unknown, but I don't suppose that's cool.