Do you guys even read any books written by someone who's still alive?

i think mnm-dr is alive

One of my favorite books is written by a living writer.

>>24575003 (OP)
houellebecq
pynchon
ellroy
krasznahorkai
süskind

Pynchon is still alive.
I think.

>>24575003 (OP)
No. And if I accidentally do, I make sure I did retroactively.

>>24575421
Based. Not a cuck, OP

>>24575003 (OP)
I can probably name all the respectable living writers on one hand, and one of them is in my writing group.

My diary desu

>>24575003 (OP)
No. Ferrante is the only exception.
Generally speaking it’s better to prioritize the canon, but especially in a time like ours when great writers are virtually extinct. If someone breaks out a great contemporary work all the sudden that gets everyone talking, I’ll read it. But it doesn’t happen anymore.

I tend to stick to things published in my own lifetime.
You won’t learn anything new by ploughing through the canon. Better to be future oriented. Where literature is going is more important than where it was

>>24575003 (OP)
Nobody besides Krasznahorkai (and McCarthy until he passed). I read Inherent Vice, too, but it felt like boomer nostalgia for THC-induced paranoia

>>24575003 (OP)
I do. Only to end up disappointed. There's certain absence in modern works I can't put into words.

>>24575003 (OP)
I don't have a lot of spare time so I don't really read a book unless it has generations of praise behind it

>>24575003 (OP)

why do I have a memory of this image from like 2006?

>>24575003 (OP)
No. I've been working my way through McCarthy's work since he passed. Pretty disapointing so far, truth be told.

>>24575003 (OP)
I occasionally like reading Byung-Chul Han

This year I’ve read and liked:
>Edward St Aubyn
>Colm Toibin
>Sharon Olds
>Jacob Polley
>Leontia Flynn
>Jean Sprackland
>Maggie O’Farrell
>JM Coetzee
>Orhan Pamuk
>Svetlana Alexievich

My guys are dropping like flies
Martin Amis
Cormac
Harry Crews
Dennis Johnson
Russell Banks

I don’t know what I will do when Pynchon and DeLillo die.

I do know that I will never read a living female author thoughbeit