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2459197 No.2459197 [Reply] [Original]

The sticky covers books of the past, but what books of the present are staples? Why the fuck don't we update this? Post contemporary /lit/ essentials(last 30 years).

>> No.2459205

ew oates

>> No.2459218

idk.

atonement?

>> No.2459225
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Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, John Updike, and Philip Roth are all contemporary writers of literary fiction that /lit/ generally approves of.

I'd also personally very highly recommend the YA novel As Simple As Snow by Gregory Galloway. It's a personal favorite of mine, not just for YA fiction, but as a fantastic novel.

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Apparently 2666 is supposed to be one of the first great novels of this century. I'm just starting part III, and his prose is really good but not a hell of a lot has happened thus far (I can tell it's gradually building up to something, though. I only hope it'll be worth it).

>> No.2459245
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Hi guys

>> No.2459247

Bah, there are no contemporary literary classics. There never were and there never will be no instant classics. They are made by time, by being left alone for a certain period and then coming back to them. What is currently considered top prose, may in ten years be pulp fiction and vice versa.

>> No.2459251

inb4 thread gets hijacked by Tao Lin trolls

>> No.2459257

Douglas Coupland

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>>2459251
It's just him samefagging. No one likes his shit and he is a sad, desperate unperson.

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>>2459247

>> No.2459262

Ayn Rand

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Sorry. It was inevitable.

Basically what >>2459225 said.

>> No.2459537

>>2459259

Where the fuck did you get this picture?

It's giving me the most excellent of boners and I desire more!

>> No.2459567

>>2459537
Madison Scott. Hmm, glad I could contribute with anything on thy board, /lit/ :D

>> No.2459672

>>2459259
I don't understand why Tao Lin gets so much hate. Some of his stuff, when he sticks to realism, is really thought provoking. I mean it may not be literature but it's definitely not bad and worth reading.

>> No.2459678

>>2459672
>liking taolin
I don't even know where to send your sort

>> No.2459684

>>2459264
10/10, I'm never coming back to /lit/, ill just print this out and look at it whenever I am tempted to go back.

>> No.2459685

Yann Martel
inb4 that "Max and the Cats" faggot shows up to tell you otherwise