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20236099 No.20236099 [Reply] [Original]

Is this really the best America had to offer, or am I missing something?

>> No.20236107

You clearly are. Faulkner and Melville could make words sing. Their contribution is invaluable. You must be severely retarded, and I wish you luck.

>> No.20236110

>>20236099
Pynchon is better than 4 of the ones pictured. I will not tell you which.
The only reason that one might disagree is because of a contempophobia, which is hatred of one's own time. It is no different from 14 year olds leaving comments on jazz youtube videos saying that the 50's was the real musical peak and that they were born in the wrong generation.

>> No.20236118

>>20236110
>Steinbeck, Poe, Hemingway, O'Connor
Did I get them or?

>> No.20236313

>>20236099
James, West, Gaddis, Wainhouse, Barth, Theroux, Roth, Burroughs, Acker, Cooper, the list goes on

>> No.20236316
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20236316

Tell me about Washington Irving and Fenimore Cooper

>> No.20236332

>>20236099
Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman alone BTFO most other countries’ entire canons.

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>>20236332
>Thoreau

>> No.20236381

>>20236099
Faulkner, melville, bellow (inb4 jew), plath (inb4 woman), ts eliot, pynch. Rest are so-so

>> No.20236418

Technically, we also adopted Nabokov as one of our own, and he was probably the best writer ever.

>> No.20236431

>>20236099
>no pinecone

>> No.20236464
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20236464

>>20236099
>Poe
>Hawthorne
>Steinbeck

>> No.20236507

>>20236099
Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Crane, cummings, Gaddis, Gass, Barth, Coover, Pynchon...

>> No.20236517

>>20236099
Where is Joan Didion?

>> No.20236553
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20236553

>>20236099
Pinnacle of Amerifat literature

KNEEL

>> No.20237087

Raymond Carver

>> No.20237336

>>20236099
walt whitman, thomas pynchon, and arthur miller are a few more. I'll also add that you can criticize the ideology of a literary movement without dismissing it entirely

>> No.20238413

>>20236099
You forgot Martin.

>> No.20238472

o hara

>> No.20238495

>>20236332
>thoreau
not fucking with that poser, other two are good though

>> No.20238504

>>20236099
Is that woman Rachel Carson?

>> No.20238662

>>20236517
In the fucking bin where she belongs

>> No.20238674

As if Melville isn’t the heaviest hitter

>> No.20239487

>>20236118
Filtered by Poe?

>> No.20239493

>>20236332
lmao

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20239529

No one wants to say DFW, and i get why, but DFW.

>> No.20239820

>ctrl+F “Dickinson”
>0 results

>> No.20240809

>>20239487
I was just trying to find the '4' the other anon mentioned. I personally like Poe

>> No.20240817

>>20236099
Fitzgerald.

>> No.20240834

>>20236099
I don't see James or Wharton in that picture.

>> No.20240874

>>20236110
>Pynchon
meme

>> No.20240877

>>20236099
Carl Barks

>> No.20240880

>>20236099
Where's Lovecraft?

>> No.20241098

>>20239820
she wont fuck you

>> No.20241140

>>20236118
>>20236381
>>20236464
What sort of depraved pseudery compels someone to talk down on steinbeck?