/lit/ - Literature

>>19544278
I'm 19 years old.

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense.

Sinclair Lewis, honestly.

>>19544297
I feel like he’s destined to rise and fade every so often as industry problems arise and need fixing. I’ve never actually read him. Is he worthwhile?

I'm 19 years old

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense.

>>19544278
The Fireside poets, the Southern Agrarians / Fugitives, and much of antebellum American literature, including William Gilmore Simms, of whom Poe wrote:
>In a recent number of our Journal we spoke of Mr. Simms as “the best novelist which this country has, upon the whole, produced;” and this is our deliberate opinion. We take into consideration, of course, as well the amount of what he has written, as the talent he has displayed; — he is the Lopez de Vega of American writers of fiction.

>in invention, in vigor, in movement, in the power of exciting interest, and in the artistical management of his themes, he has surpassed, we think, any of his countrymen: — that is to say, he has surpassed any of them in the aggregate of these high qualities.

>>19544278
Thomas wolfe.

I think Dos Passos is due for it - we're living in very similar times now and there's mounting discontent in the western world with regards to labor.

>>19544706
Any books from Simms? His poetry is second rate

>>19545711
Poe called the short story collection _The Wigwam and the Cabin_ "decidedly the most American of American books." _Yemasse_ seems to be his best novel.

>>19545740
>>19545740
Wtf is _ but thank you

>>19545757
italics

contrastingly, authors who are going to fall out of favour?
DFW I think

>>19545801
*No*, that would be asterisks. _these_ are poor man’s underscoring.

/lit should have adopted this $#!t ages ago

>>19544278
Marshall McLuhan. He was right about everything.

>>19545826
He already has, except for niche circles like this place. All the "celebrated" American writers from that time have been pushed out of mind. Eugenides, Franzen, Foer...Zadie Smith has lasting power because she's a minority and a woman to boot. But DFW is now pretty much seen as a try hard relic of the 90's who wrote one notable book and a bunch of cringe essays/short stories.

>>19545826
Whole swaths of American lit. The only thing propping it up is the academic machine moving at such a glacial pace.

>>19544278
Gore Vidal. His essays on America especially.

>>19546364
Idk. All writers in every country will eventually fade with time unless they become more of legends and icons instead of writers and people. I don’t see Faulkner, Hemingway, Moby Dick, Leaves Of Grass becoming obscure any time soon

>>19546561
I think lower education will crash and burn and a concurrent shift in culture and consciousness will render some of it out of fashion. American literary fiction is used as propaganda and the ivory tower has a very different ideology than the regime that put it in place, so university support will falter as well. The rest will go the way of the victorian countryside drama.

>>19546561
>Faulkner
Who?

de Troyes

>>19546621
There will still be references and their influence will still be felt though. And there will always be niches of people who will be interested in them. The history of art will always be studied. “White whale” is a fairly common expression in America that remains. Hemingway’s persona is pretty iconic and I don’t see him being forgotten, even if he is wrongly hated by feminists. There will always be traces of this stuff unless you’re talking 500+ years out where there may be drastic changes in humanity. Think of someone like Dante. Catholicism sway has greatly waned yet he still remains a household name

I feel like Simulacra and Simulation will be required teaching in High School if not already (assuming brick and mortar schools fail)

>>19546665
That's why I said unfashionable instead of extinct or obscure. More contemporary lit is likely to replace it. I expect the more libertine parts of the 70s to become extremely relevant very soon.

>>19546702
kek

People like Barthe maybe

>>19546725
It’s very possible but there will always be changes in trends. Let’s say whites are completely extinct in the future. White literature might be seen as Greek literature is today. I think there are just some literature too firmly rooted to every be completely forgotten. Someone like Shakespeare doesn’t even seem human. More God/icon/legend. But there was a time when you could walk the streets and sneak up behind someone like Dante, Shakespeare, Homer, etc and sucker punch them

>>19546777
>But there was a time when you could walk the streets and sneak up behind someone like Dante, Shakespeare, Homer, etc and sucker punch them
What a beautiful thought. I'm going to remember that the next time I sucker punch somebody in the street.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

It's most likely to be someone who current academia/critics have overlooked, but actually has literary merit. Some genre dude like David Gemmell maybe
>>19545826
Pynchon. Even now, much of GR is tedious. Who gives a fuck about Nixon or Mickey Rooney?

>>19544278
Paul Morand

>>19547060
gr sucks

>>19547060
I agree with Pynchon. When I first got into serious literature, it was through postmodern writers like Pynchon, DFW, and the rest of the usual suspects. I don’t know if I just outgrew it, but that whole style is unappealing to me anymore and I have no desire to reread any of them except a couple. I don’t think any of those wacky maximalist novelists will survive long term except maybe IJ because it speaks strongly to a certain subsection of men

my dick made me open this thread
thank you, dick

>>19544278
My nigga John Donne is due another resurgence in popularity … any time now …

>>19547119
I think a problem the postmodernists are going to run into is their lack of ripping yarns to sustain the length. Ain't nobody got time to plough through a two hundred year old 1000 pager unless the narrative is hooky as fuck. Dickens and Tolstoy just about manage this, Gaddis not so much.