Thread 24481849 - /lit/ [Archived: 827 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:49:24 PM No.24481849
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Why hasn't there been a single good novelist since Pynchon, DeLillo, DFW, McCarthy and Roth?
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Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:50:38 PM No.24481851
brandon-sanderson
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>>24481849 (OP)
ENTER
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 5:05:00 PM No.24481886
There has, and better than those you mention, it’s just that you’ve built your whole identity around hating the contemporary world to make yourself feel special and would be unable to acknowledge your views were wrong even if proof were staring you in the face.
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Anonymous
6/20/2025, 5:10:08 PM No.24481906
>>24481849 (OP)
Three of those aren’t particularly good. Krasznahorkai, Bolano, and Denis Johnson are all good contemporary authors.
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Anonymous
6/20/2025, 5:10:41 PM No.24481909
nigga you need to read my shit if you think that
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 5:10:57 PM No.24481910
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>>24481849 (OP)
Arent you forgetting someone?
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Anonymous
6/20/2025, 5:11:37 PM No.24481912
>>24481906
Can’t believe i forgot to add, but Vollmann as well
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 5:31:37 PM No.24481972
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>>24481910
overrated tbqh
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Anonymous
6/20/2025, 5:35:26 PM No.24481978
>>24481972
Underrated actually
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 5:41:12 PM No.24482004
>>24481910
Correctly rated in all honesty
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 5:10:14 AM No.24483711
>>24481849 (OP)
It's me
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 5:13:56 AM No.24483726
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>>24481972
he‘s so me fr fr
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6/21/2025, 7:12:57 AM No.24483917
Literature peaked with Lovecraft.
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 1:28:42 PM No.24484533
>>24483917
If you're a 12-year old edgelord, sure
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 1:29:53 PM No.24484534
>>24481886
Like who?