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17757356 No.17757356 [Reply] [Original]

Name the best living authors. I start.

>> No.17757609

>>17757356
I'll go ahead and get the obvious ones out of the way:
Pynchon
Delillo
William T. Vollmann
Joseph McElroy
John Barth
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Cormac McCarthy

>> No.17757617
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17757617

The king of /lit.

>> No.17757649
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17757649

Marilyn Robinson

>> No.17757657

>>17757356
Pynchon duh

>> No.17757666

How about the non-anglo?

>> No.17757740

>>17757609
>Joseph McElroy
when are this faggot's books getting republished????

>> No.17757807

>>17757356
Hey that’s not Jon Fosse

>> No.17758701

Bump.

>> No.17759861

>>17757356
I think it's pretty safe to say Pynchon

>> No.17759871

>>17757649
>Marilyn
>image file name has correct spelling

Sorry anon but you’re a fucking mong

>> No.17759905

Was going to post Alasdair Gray, then remembered

;-;

>> No.17759914

>>17757666
Uhhh
Vargas Llosa?
The Austrian who likes genocide?

>> No.17760433

Robert Coover is still alive

>> No.17760510

>>17757609

Yet to read any Barth. Where would one start, peeps?

>> No.17760626

>>17757609
>vollmann

>> No.17760632

>>17759861
Meh.

>> No.17760647

Well, I don't want to brag, but it's me, Pynchon

>> No.17760649

>>17757356
Bill Bryson

>> No.17760654

Kundera, easy

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17760672

In all seriousness.