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Anonymous Thu Dec 13 21:31:11 2018 No.12224832 [Reply] [Original]

Who is the best American short story writer?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 21:32:13 2018 No.12224836 >>12224832 Unironically Stephen King

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 21:33:12 2018 No.12224839 Hem or the Fitz probably.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 21:35:46 2018 No.12224848 Poe

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 21:37:19 2018 No.12224851 File: 2.59 MB, 2976x3968, 15447549960235580729340681796677.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This right here

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 21:37:37 2018 No.12224853 >>12224832 Ernest Hemingway But Poe was the greater genius

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 21:39:39 2018 No.12224857 >>12224832 Ray Bradbury

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 21:41:49 2018 No.12224867 Poe sucks. He literally copypastes 90% of his stories and unlike his two most famous poems (which are very catchy), theyre all extremely kitchy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 21:43:01 2018 No.12224873 >>12224851 Based and dare I say it folks...Redpilled

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 22:50:34 2018 No.12225085 File: 115 KB, 830x589, Cheever.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12224832 Don't know about the best, but check out John Cheever my dude.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 22:55:29 2018 No.12225098 >>12224832 Raymond Carver Hemingway Faulkner Salinger O'Connor O. Henry had some dubs Some say Fitzgerald but I dont dig George Saunders has some good ones Really probably Carver, Hemingway, faulkner or salinger

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 22:56:50 2018 No.12225106 How are you all ignoring Hawthorne?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 23:00:14 2018 No.12225112 Is Borges American?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 23:01:44 2018 No.12225121 >>12225106 Intentionally

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 23:01:46 2018 No.12225122 >>12225112 shut up

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 23:04:13 2018 No.12225129 Lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 23:48:00 2018 No.12225239 >>12225129 Yikes

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 23:48:32 2018 No.12225240 >>12225129 Yikes

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 23:51:26 2018 No.12225258 >>12225129 Yikes count: 3

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 23:53:02 2018 No.12225265 >>12225129 Oof

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 13 23:53:49 2018 No.12225269 >>12225129 Based

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 00:31:48 2018 No.12225393 Dr Seuss

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 00:39:24 2018 No.12225417 Nabokov

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 00:41:55 2018 No.12225423 >>12225106 /lit/ is full of pseuds, they probably haven't read Hawthorne beyond what was assigned in high school

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 00:42:06 2018 No.12225424 Salinger The Laughing Man is one of my favorite stories ever.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 00:42:32 2018 No.12225428 I write some pretty good ones tbqhwyf

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 00:44:01 2018 No.12225434 You haven't read a good short story yet.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 00:45:57 2018 No.12225441 >>12224832 Robert F. Young and Henry James Non-american: Honoré de Balzac and Borges

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 02:27:14 2018 No.12225456 >>12224839 Amending this to add Bradbury to the list.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 02:27:23 2018 No.12225457 Vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 02:41:20 2018 No.12225486 >>12225129 Best post in the whole thread.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 03:10:02 2018 No.12225553 >>12224867 Who did he plagiarize from?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 04:04:20 2018 No.12225684 File: 121 KB, 427x553, 20181210_164141.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12225129

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 04:05:39 2018 No.12225686 >>12225684 what emotion is this image meant to convey?

Anonymous Fri Dec 14 04:08:28 2018 No.12225690

>>12225686
he's cringing, its meant to convey that the person is offended by black africans being called apes, niggers, zambos, porch monkeys, spear chuckers, pavement apes, midnight, coons, negros, demon, cannibal invalid race etc etc etc. Its an abstract kind of ressentiment

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 04:10:18 2018 No.12225698 >>12225686 unspeakable emotions

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 04:12:08 2018 No.12225705 >>12225684 Well if you'd WATCHED THE FUCKING EPISODE

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 04:12:47 2018 No.12225707 >>12225705 Meant for >>12225686

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 04:13:41 2018 No.12225710 >>12225698 Eye sea watt ewe did their

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 04:14:34 2018 No.12225713 >>12224832 Read the Best America Short Story series and find out, you twat.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 04:29:26 2018 No.12225748 >>12224832 CWC

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 04:39:36 2018 No.12225766 File: 44 KB, 300x496, i_have_no_mouth_and_i_must_scream.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Harlan ellison

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 05:44:27 2018 No.12225897 >>12224832 Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 12:39:52 2018 No.12227126 >>12224832 Bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 12:42:40 2018 No.12227135 How the FUCK has no one mentioned The Time Machine yet?? Fuck y’all.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 12:43:35 2018 No.12227139 >>12225686 He is the shiggy man. The emotion is "shiggy diggy".

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 12:47:41 2018 No.12227155 File: 13 KB, 258x400, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12224832 It doesn't get better than Cheever. He even earned Nabokov's respect.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 12:51:04 2018 No.12227171 How no one mention yet Melville?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 12:58:40 2018 No.12227196 >>12225713 >letting someone else decide for you

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 12:59:57 2018 No.12227203 I vote Hawthorne and I also vote that you're all fags

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 13:00:26 2018 No.12227207 >>12224832 Borges

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 13:03:41 2018 No.12227218 >>12225129 That ain't it senpai

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 13:05:03 2018 No.12227230 >>12224851 behold! we have a patrician in here.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 13:27:37 2018 No.12227332 >>12227196 >asking everyone on mackerel-biased Hungarian hoverboard to decide for them who the best American short story writer is What's the difference?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 14 13:29:13 2018 No.12227342 >>12224832 Raymond Carver. It's not close.

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