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What are some authors with very stark, minimal etc. prose? People such as Hemingway and McCarthy are who I have in mind.

>> No.7113093

Hmm... try Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, the list could go on!

>> No.7113095

>>7113093
thanks anon xDD

>> No.7113105

LAN TIN

>> No.7113130

>>7113071
Steinbeck?

>> No.7113136

Steinbeck and O'Connor come to mind.

>> No.7113137

>>7113071
Virginia Woolf

>> No.7113138

Dashiell Hammett

>> No.7113145

Sherwood Anderson

honestly Winesburg, Ohio is better than anything Hemingway and McCarthy did, in terms of aesthetics and plot, and that statement isn't intended to detract from either of those two in the slightest

oh and Carver duh

>> No.7113156

>>7113137
>>7113136
>>7113130
No.

>> No.7113174
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7113174

Aesop

>> No.7113176

Tao Lin

>> No.7113182

>>7113174
she is reading Nabokov... in Russian..??

had a feeling she was a pleb

>> No.7113209

>>7113138
This, especially The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key, which are entirely made up of descriptions and dialogue with no interior thoughts whatsoever.

>> No.7113227

>>7113071
Bret Easton Ellis comes to mind.

Especially in Less Than Zero.

I guess Dennis Cooper, too. But only some of his stuff.

>> No.7113228

>>7113174
whose this testicle spectacle?

>> No.7113232

>>7113228
grimes

>> No.7113237

>>7113228
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FH-q0I1fJY

>> No.7113280

Vonnegut of course.

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>>7113237
Flail - w2c?
Also, Brooke Candy sickens my hole

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>>7113071
This comes to mind.

Before you read: know that the guy hates peaches

>> No.7114390

>>7113228
I would also make chi-chi in her butt.

>> No.7114396

>>7113071
What was Grimey trying to do with that quote?

>> No.7114402

>>7114396
show everyone her sharp edges

>> No.7115116

Alain Robbe-Grillet.