>>24593152
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.