Thread 24593152

Are there any authors worth reading from the last twenty five years?
I feel that writers who debuted in the last two decades, especially after 2007 and 2012, are astrosurfed hard by their publishing companies.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure those kinds of tactics have been going on for over a century at least, but I don't think they were that blatant and they didn't use things like mysogyny, racism, classism, transphobia, etc. as shields against criticism.

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>>24593152 (OP)
Who is the brown chick?

>>24593173
Han Kang

>>24593152 (OP)
Well, there's Pynchon & co. But I can't think of any meaningful book from authors who debuted semi-recently.
Heart great things about Laurus, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

>>24593173
rupi kaur - she mainly does poetry that seems like it was written by a middle schooler.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_U2dtdVL48Y?feature=share

bonus meme of her reading her own poetry

>>24593182
I do know of works released in the 2000s that are worth reading, but they are by people who started getting published in the 90s at most.

>>24593152 (OP)
some post-2000 authors I've read works from and enjoyed:
Oisin Fagan (Nobber)
Tomoyuki Hoshino (ME)
Edouard Leve (Autoportrait, Suicide)
Tao Lin (Taipei)
Sam Pink (Person &c)
Adem Luz Rienspects (Mixtape Hyperborea)
Gabriel Smith (Brat)

Nobber (2019), Brat (2024), Person (2010), and Suicide (2008) were my favourites among these. Nobber I read most recently and it was terrific.
Brat was great and impressed me, but it took me maybe a quarter of the book to get me to like it.
Person hit home in a few ways, and would probably suit a lot of people on here in spite but would be stylistically devisive.
Suicide has an interesting concept, but the depth might be unfairly dug by the author's own suicide.

ME was cool but felt a bit too goofy to be profound.
Taipei dragged at the end when it became dialogue heavy, but I liked the rest.
Mixtape Hyperborea was naive but fun for what it was, being an idealised nostalgia trip about male adolescence with an edge about masculinity; was reading a manuscript copy which was full of dumb errors, so I hope the published version is better-edited.

The only contemporary author I've read and disliked so far is Jordan Castro, specifically his novel the Novelist. Found it boring despite being so short, and banal as far as commentary or intent.

>>24593152 (OP)
No joke. Is Poopy Kaur actually considered a phenomenom?

Actually, my cousin who doesn't read at all has a book of hers so I guess that answers my question.

bump

Fiona Benson, Liz Berry, Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Jacob Polley. Don’t read many novels, but Adichie is much better than you think she’ll be

>>24594683
All trash btw

>>24593152 (OP)
Honor Levy!!! Give her book a try!!

ned beauman

>>24593152 (OP)
Nick Land, Zizek, Me, DFW

>>24594686
>self-published
It looks like it was designed on Canva so it checks out, I guess

>>24596457
All debuted before the 2000s.

>>24594683
Where would you recommend starting with them? But I ask as someone who's barely read any poetry.

>>24598236
Try The Home Child

>>24593152 (OP)
You've got McCarthy, Bolaño and DFW who all wrote books in the last 25 years and I've heard Edouard Leve was pretty good but I haven't read him. There's also Pynchon, Murakami and Houellebecq who are probably the last living authors of any note. But I don't know of any author that's debuted in the last 25 years that has written anything of real significance. Great sprawling novels like Bolaño's 2666 aren't really done anymore. Honestly I don't even know what is being written at the moment. I don't read any modern writers because most of them aren't that good or interesting. They're not even almost as interesting as the great writers of the early 20th century let alone the greats of the 19th century. All the authors in your pic related have been massively culturally significant but they are all awful and will be forgotten in 100 years like the fad authors of the 1800s.

Short answer: No

>>24593365
Kill yourself, parasite.

>>24598367
How do you know modern writers aren’t that good if you haven’t read them and indeed don’t even know what is being written? Some sort of cultural telepathy?
For all you know, contemporary writing might be better than the 19th century

>>24598367
Nice reading comprehension. We are talking about authors who started writing in the last 25 years.

>>24598512
Because the culture that we live in is almost incapable of creating great art at this point in time. In all art forms there has been a major decline over period of hundreds of years and we are at the breaking point currently. I'm someone who is very clued into film and music and I can tell you that both of those mediums are running on fumes currently and the same can be said for books. The reason I don't read modern authors is that there are far too many great books written in the previous centuries that I would rather read first than bother with lesser modern works
>contemporary writing might be better than the 19th century
Is this a joke?

>>24598376
wut

BEHOLD

>>24593152 (OP)
They're all shit, the only fiction book I have liked from the 21 century was the last Flashman book (because it's Flashman).

>>24598512
>For all you know, contemporary writing might be better than the 19th century
4/10 I have seen better baits

>>24593152 (OP)
The most recent contemporary writer who's actually talented and I would recommend to others debuted in the 1990s.

>>24598770
Who are the authors who debuted after 2000 that you've read but wouldn't recommend?

>>24598879
All of them

>>24593365
>Adem Luz Rienspects (Mixtape Hyperborea)
While I've got /lit/ shills on my mind, I forgot I read the first two novels by Ogden Nesmer a few years back: I Pray to the Hungry God and Eggplant. I thought Hungry God was the better book, but Nesmer didn't campaign behind it on here like he did with Eggplant so it doesn't seem like many here read it. Eggplant fits in a similar category as Mixtape where I'd call it a naive first novel, but still compelling.

>Hungry God
A child solider in the Congo who becomes a warlord and pursues his brother. Liked the narrative structure.
>Eggplant
Two threads: one a recluse exotic drug manufacturer, another a journalist following a snuff artist. The drug dealer parts have some philosophical meandering, but I remember genuine suspense with the journalist.

I don't have any inherent faith in authors coming out of /lit/, but having free PDF copies of Eggplant and Mixtape got me to try them out after sitting on them a long time. The covers being good helped.

>>24598676
>>24598753
So you don’t actually know? You just feel a sort of truthiness in your gut? Just sort of reckon there’s a decline and you don’t need to actually check whether the opinion you pulled out of your ass has any grounding in reality.
If I tell you Alice Oswald is a greater poet than Matthew Arnold, you have no frame of reference to argue with me

Mircea Cărtărescu is too late for this prompt but solenoid is a very significant novel and written recently. I think we’ve hit a low point, people are writing again. I think people need to build on what Mike Ma and Rx han started and bring sophistication and measure to it. We are living in an age of biomaterialism: that’s the theme of houellebecq’s oeuvre and something we can built from.
Tom Wolfe meets Houellebecq meets Mike ma meets Pessoa, meets Melville.
I don’t think modern life is a void for artistry as much as it has too much noise and wage slaving in relationship to focus and free time. It’s not insurmountable though.
One that hasn’t been mentioned is Rob Doyle, he’s not terrible just middling.

Ned Beauman, Patrick DeWitt and Jasper Fforde come to mind

About halfway through My Stupid Intentions by Bernardo Zannoni and I like it a lot. Debut novel, published 2021. Zannoni was born 1995.

Takes the perspective of a marten, but it's pretty far from something like Watership Down. Blurs the line between a human and an animal world. Ideas about God, morality, instinct, duty. Gives the feeling somewhat of a fable or a parable, but maybe that's just it being about animals.

>>24601457
I've now finished this and it has my recommendation.

I'm going to read My First Book and none of you can stop me.