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Anonymous No.24598887 >>24599162 >>24599281 >>24599305 >>24599377 >>24599382 >>24599388 >>24599539 >>24600146 >>24600557 >>24600767
American literature
>favorite author
>favorite novel
>favorite poem
>favorite short story
Anonymous No.24599064 >>24599085
>me
>mine
>mine
>mine
Anonymous No.24599085 >>24600880
>>24599064
Post work
Anonymous No.24599162 >>24600845
>>24598887 (OP)
1st and 2nd

Cormac / Melville
Moby Dick / Blood Meridian
Bartleby / Old Man and the Sea
Song of Myself / Thantatopsis
Anonymous No.24599249
Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom
I haven't read much US poetry
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Anonymous No.24599281
>>24598887 (OP)
Faulkner
Tender Is the Night
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Bartleby the Scrivener
Anonymous No.24599288
>Poe
>Cold Mountain
>The Raven
>Fall of the House Usher
Anonymous No.24599305
>>24598887 (OP)
Steinbeck
The Godfather
Raven, it's the only one I know.
Of Mice and Men
Anonymous No.24599377 >>24599472
>>24598887 (OP)
Nabokov
Pale Fire
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Silent Towns (I don't read many short stories though)
Anonymous No.24599382 >>24599407 >>24600845
>>24598887 (OP)
>Willa Cather
>Absalom, Absalom or Sometimes a Great Notion
>The Waste Land
>A Perfect Day for Bananafish or A Good Man is Hard to Find
Anonymous No.24599388
>>24598887 (OP)

>James Madison
>the Constitution
>the first amendment
>the Fourth amendment

Fuck you continentals, we took our constitution from the Iroquois nation of America.
Anonymous No.24599407 >>24600845
>>24599382
John Ashbery
The Day of the Locust
Flow Chart
One of Washington Irving's Christmas shorts in Geoffrey Crown
Anonymous No.24599472 >>24600905
>>24599377
Kek
Anonymous No.24599539 >>24599661
>>24598887 (OP)
Is that Sydney Sweeney? She has great genes.
Anonymous No.24599661 >>24600075 >>24600243
>>24599539
>Is that Sydney Sweeney?
Not at all. Sydney has bigger tits.
>She has great genes.
Sydney is ugly. Mid genes. The tits do all the work.
Anonymous No.24600075 >>24600205
>>24599661
Keep seething, leftoid. Titler is here to stay.
Anonymous No.24600091 >>24600093 >>24600106 >>24600110
i've only just started Moby Dick (50 pages) but how is this not objectively just the best thing written since Paradise Lost
Anonymous No.24600093 >>24600094
>>24600091
If it were, youโ€™d have no way of discerning it
Anonymous No.24600094
>>24600093
it's pretty obvious to me ngl
Anonymous No.24600106
>>24600091
How is it?
Anonymous No.24600110
>>24600091
the early part is good but the book definitively drags on a bit too much with all of the chapters concerned with whale anatomy and whaling techniques etc and the language is outdated/specialist to the point of hurting enjoyment
Anonymous No.24600146
>>24598887 (OP)
>favorite author
Thomas Pynchon
>favorite novel
The Sot Weed Factor
>favorite poem
The Skeleton in Armor
>favorite short story
Young Goodman Brown
Anonymous No.24600205
>>24600075
>leftoid
lmao just being objective.
Anonymous No.24600243
>>24599661
Genuinely mid face thereโ€™s 20 of her in every small southern town in America. Huge tits and inbred retard face
Anonymous No.24600557 >>24600751
>>24598887 (OP)
Guy who wrote foe
Foe
Fanfiction.net
Americans are garbage
Anonymous No.24600751
>>24600557
Brown hands typed this.
Anonymous No.24600767
>>24598887 (OP)

Hunter Thompson
Tropic of Cancer
Bluebird
The Legend of Sleeping Hollow
Anonymous No.24600845
>>24599407
>>24599382
>>24599162
Based
Anonymous No.24600880
>>24599085
It's that pussy F Gardner, he ain't gonna post shit.
Anonymous No.24600905
>>24599472
That wasn't a joke
Anonymous No.24602180
Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Annabel Lee
The Masque of the Red Death