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Where do I start?

>> No.19525346

>>19525342
Amerikca

>> No.19525356

Given that all the authors in the past century worth reading are American I don't think there really is a set place to start, just pick a book that sounds good to you and start.

>> No.19525664

>>19525342
Other than Poe and Burroughs there isn't much of worth in my opinion

>> No.19525672

>>19525342
Melville

>> No.19525680

>>19525342
Start with 19th century writers like Poe, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Twain, Irving, Thoreau. Then move on to early-to-mid-20th century and end there. Eliot, Pound, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, etc.

>> No.19525712

>>19525342
Wikipedia

>> No.19526851

Faulkner. Then stop there. Once you've read Faulkner you've basically read the entire American canon.

>> No.19526853

In no order, just a small segment of American writers that highlight our obvious superiority:
Hart Crane
James Agee
Charles Olson
TS Eliot
Robert Creeley
Pynchon
Henry Miller
H. Thompson
Frank O’Hara
Herman Melville
Henry James
E. A. Poe
Robert Frost
W. Faulkner
Carson McCullers
James Baldwin
John Ashbery
William Carlos Williams
Wallace Stevens
Robert Bly
Tennessee Williams
Marianne Hauser
Philip Roth
Don DeLillo
Robert Duncan
Emerson
Alfred Starr Hamilton
William Gass
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
Marianne Moore
Ezra Pound
Robert Lowell
H.D.
Louis Zukofsky
James Schuyler
flannery o'connor
Truman Capote
PKD
David Markson
Gertrude Stein
Emily Dickinson
George Oppen
Langston Hughes
Anne Sexton
Sylvia Plath
Elizabeth Bishop
Adrienne Rich
James Merrill
James Purdy

>> No.19526869

>>19525342
Only read the black authors if you don’t wanna turn out racist

>> No.19526883

i ignore american "culture"

>> No.19526888

>>19526853
Faulkner is the only one worth reading from there

>> No.19526893

>>19525680
Don't read these other retards just read Faulkner

>> No.19526901

>>19526888
Cope, fag

>> No.19526919
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19526919

Here’s deleuze on American literature

>> No.19526923

>>19526919
Deleuze is shit though

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>>19525342

>> No.19526925

You start with Moby Dick

>> No.19526930

>>19526888
>I only recognize faulkner

>> No.19526951

>>19526853
Why is Flannery O'Connor the only one in lower case lol?

>> No.19526990

>>19525342
Robert E Howard. Before you say its just pulp understand that his works encompass American values and identity very well.

>> No.19527013

Settlers - J. Sakai

>> No.19527019

>>19527013
Pretty cool book written by the Feds. I wonder why only anarkiddies read and spam it

>> No.19527089

>>19525664
your opinion is worthless