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Hi /lit/, so I enjoy the works of Hemingway, Salinger, and the lyrics written by Isaac Brock. I'm looking for something new to read, would you have any suggestions based on my preferences?

>> No.1801631

Richard Yates

>> No.1801633

>>1801631
Do you mean "Tao Lin" by Richard Yates?

>> No.1801638

>>1801633
No

>> No.1801929

bump

>> No.1801938

Read the wasteland

>> No.1801954

Cormac McCarthy is the answer to any Man asking what to read

>> No.1801955

Try "Richard Yates" by Tao Lin

>> No.1801957

Outlaws of the Marsh is iggity ill, and it will result in you watching every shaw brothers kung fu movie in your underwear with a beer

>> No.1801981

>>1801954
Why would you recommend that sci fi garbage?

>> No.1802005

Fitzgerald

>> No.1802008

>>1801981

>> not shur if srs

>> No.1802018

>>1801631
My lord this man won't stop preaching, completely unlike Salinger and Hemingway who show a story through mostly dialogue. Garbage writer.

>> No.1802036

This thread is also relevant to my interests. I guess we have similar sensibilities. The Wasteland is a good recommendation.

I put down Yates in my notebook, but crossed him out again. So what would you guys recommend?

>> No.1802044

>>1802036

This is me.

>>1802008
> Why not McCarthy?

I understand why he wouldn't recommend it, I have similar tastes to OP and do not find McCarthy especially interesting.

>> No.1802049

KAWABATA.

>> No.1802048

>>1802005
zelda

>> No.1802092

Bukowski--like Hemingway and Salinger, he says balls to metaphor, here's plain language that hits hard

>> No.1802105

>>1802049

Checked him out on wiki, looks good. Recommended starting point beyond the obvious chronology?

>> No.1802111

>>1802105
Not the recommender, but I would suggest House of the Sleeping Beauties or Beauty and Sadness as starting points. You should probably avoid reading Snow Country or Thousand Cranes first.

>> No.1802116

>I put down Yates in my notebook, but crossed him out again.
Why did you do that?

>> No.1802134

>>1802116

Because to my understanding, it was a troll post and doesn't resemble Salinger, Hemingway or Brock. Not true?

>> No.1802160

>>1802134
Not at all. It's one of the best recommendation itt (if not THE BEST).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Yates_%28novelist%29

>> No.1802177

>>1802160

OK, cheers, will check him out.

>> No.1802659

badump

>> No.1802783

try some steinbeck. East of Eden is one of the best books I've ever read, and it yields something new every time I've read it.

>> No.1802803

try jack kerouac

>> No.1803819

>>1802783
seconding this

>> No.1803911

Tobias Wolff.

>> No.1803945

WALT FUCKING WHITMAN.

Honeslty, if you read the lyrics to Third Planet or Gravity Rides Everything or Float On, it's all Whitman and I say this in a good way.

>> No.1804714

>>1803945
thanks, I was curious about poets besides bukowski who write this way

>> No.1806735

bump for the goodness of /lit/