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So, /lit/, what do you think is the essential pop-core, the one that comes to your mind when you think of that person you just met who describes himself as a "reader" yet thinks John Williams is a famous hollywood fanfare composer.

>> No.8535915

>>8535205
David Foster Wallace.

>> No.8535922

>>8535915
Here's your (you)

>> No.8535933

>>8535205
David Foster Wallace
Don Dellilo
James Joyce
Thomas Pynchon

>> No.8535936

>>8535205
But John Williams is a famous Hollywood fanfare composer. Just because he wrote a book about some pothead doesn't negate the other thing

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>>8535205
Babbys first novel

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>>8535933
>Delillo, Joyce, Pynchon

>> No.8535962

DFW, pynchon murakami, garcia marquez, john green, roth, delillo, vollman, mccarthy, etc.

>> No.8535988

>People saying Pynchon

People might name drop him to seem cool or well read but most don't actually read him. Pynchon is not pop-core. Neither is Delillo, etc.

You people are either dense or just don't get what OP is talking about.

>Palahniuk
>Murakami
>Vonnegut
>Junot Diaz
>Kerouac
>Bukowski

This is Tumblr girl "I read!" pop pleb core.

I still like Murakami and Vonnegut though.

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>> No.8536020

>>8535996
>those grandpa core pants
>those shoes

LGTSS

>DFW's fashion sense

>> No.8536027

>>8535996
Can anyone name everyone?

>> No.8536049

>>8536027
DFW, Franzen, Antonio Monda, Davide Azzolini, Zadie Smith, Nathan Englander, Jeffrey Eugenides

>> No.8536456

>>8535988
you forgot McCarthy and Hesse

>> No.8536511

>>8536456
After reading Blood Meridian, I have been kind of shocked at how mainstream a novel it is, especially considering its style and depth.

Do ppl just like it for the gruesome descriptions/violence or what? I just can't imagine the average reader enjoying the really long descriptions of people walking through the desert.

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>> No.8537201

>>8535988
>>8535962
>>8536875

>> No.8537249

>>8536511
Some people read Moby Dick as an exciting adventure novel

>> No.8538074

>>8535988
this is the real list

>> No.8538155

where should i start with delillo

>> No.8538209

Anna Karenina