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Let's talk about contemporary writers

Who are your favorites?

>> No.11775017

>>11774999
I hate niggers

>> No.11775025

I refuse to read anything written by anyone who has not been dead for at least a quarter century.

>> No.11775078

>>11775025
Makes sense. Wouldn't want to have to form your own opinions.

>> No.11775094

>>11775078
I was more thinking about not polluting my mind with garbage

>> No.11775133

>>11775094
With this thought process, the literary fiction industry would die in a heartbeat and we’d suffer the same fates of every artist that has died without recognition.

>> No.11775153

>>11774999
Houellebecq, hands-down. My gf really likes Murakami. He seems alright too.

>> No.11775160

I unironically like Tao Lin. I like Sally Rooney. Houellebecq I enjoy but have yet to finish a whole. Murakami is fine, certainly enjoyable.

>> No.11775167

me

>> No.11775184

>>11775133
which is the same fate as any artist who's died with recognition

>> No.11775195

>>11775184
But we can better understand the author if they’re alive instead of having to interpret purely through the art

>> No.11775205

>>11775160
>Sally Rooney
Oh no you didn’t.

>> No.11775283

>>11775195
some might prefer the latter, nothing's shattered that way, keeps a sense of mystique

>> No.11775480

The only contemporary writer that I've read is Houellebecq. Pretty decent.

>> No.11775596

david fishkind.

>> No.11775620

>>11774999
James Salter, died in 2014 but he was a really incredible stylist. I have read Light Years and Solo Faces, and he has a short story collection called Last Night. He has a great short story about death called “Twenty Minutes” that I love.

>> No.11775663

>>11775153
>>11775480
Read The Foundation for Exploration by Sean Goonan

>> No.11775819

>>11774999
Some of the authors I enjoyed lately are Ben Lerner, Anne Carson, Donna Tartt
Reading Zadie Smith right now and NOT enjoying it, though

>> No.11775846

>>11775819
I love Donna Tartt above all living writers. I breathe in her worlds and am intoxicated and addicted. I wish there were more like her. Writers who value storytelling foremost but still care about crafting a pleasing sentence and who don't delude themselves into moralizing.

>> No.11775860

>>11775596
You might as well shill somewhere else, David. Alt lit hanger-ons aren't welcome here.

>> No.11775868

>>11775094
No sense in worrying about the pollution of a mind that can't think for itself.

>> No.11775901

>>11775819
>Anne Carson
Will never understand the appeal. Polite, mundane intelligentsia poet ; I must admit I never read the greeks in english, though. Her book on Proust is absolutely pointless considering all the analysis and essays and related fiction/poetic works we have about him and La Recherche here in France.

I plan on reading Atocha Station soon.

>> No.11776906

J.K. Rowling.
J.R.R Martin
Steven King
Kazuo Ishiguro

>> No.11776919

I've read a lot of Murakami and Ishiguro and I have read a little by an assortment of different readers. I need to start reading more contemporary work soon, I find with reading it is good to cast as wide a net as possible.

>> No.11777457

>>11775860
fuck you. but follow me on instagram.

>> No.11777486

>>11774999
Tao Lin
Pewdiepie
Styxhexenhammer666
Roberto Pinchas
Elliot Rodger
Anders Breivik
M.N.M-D.R.
Slavoj Zizek
Ta Nehisi Coates
Scam Likely
Michael Saint Wood
Jordan Peterson
Contrapoints
Sargon of Akkad
Ha Satan

>> No.11777626

>>11775868
Better an empty head than a head filled with trash desu

>> No.11777694

>>11774999
Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings, David Mitchell's Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time are pretty good.

I also think Sarah Waters' Fingersmith was great and it never seems to get mentioned on here. If the book doesn't sound appealing though, at least watch Park Chan Wook's The Handmaiden, a really loose adaptation but honestly one of the best films of 2017 that'll also make you pop so many boners your dick will ache.