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Great living American authors.

>> No.629563

nay

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>> No.629608

>>629578

She's dead.

But wait a second...

>> No.629610
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>> No.629611

David Markson

>> No.629614

I wanted to reply with 'last time I checked Salinger was still alive' but then I actually checked it. What the shit. I have a good excuse for missing this but still, feels pretty awkward.

>> No.629623

William T. Vollmann

>> No.629628

>>629614
you obviously werent around when lit was still crisp and fresh.

Salingers death was all over this place for about 2 weeks.

>> No.629631

>>629614
>slowpoke.jpg


since cormac mccarthy was already mentioned i'll go with don delillo.

>> No.629636

>>629628
Haha yeah. It was like a day after the creation of /lit/. I was the first to point that out lol

>> No.629649

>>629628
>>629631

I wasn't 'around' 'at all' for quite some time. Let's just say that this year is one month shorter for me. Still, this is quite shocking and I can't even figure out why. It's not like he has published anything in like... 40 years or so.

>> No.629671

Is Philip Roth still alive? If so, I nominate him for somehow remaining relevant.

>> No.629687

>>629671
He's still alive and he's still writing tons and tons of books too

>> No.629694

>>629687
Well maybe not that many, but he's had a novel published five years in a row

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Larry Niven - he writes hard science fiction; his best stuff is from the '70s.

>> No.629713

>>629706

Nazi asshole with no writing skills.

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:[

>> No.629738

>>629732
He's OK

>> No.629742

>>629732
>Harlin: Do you read much contemporary literature?

(David) Markson: Very little. Ezra Pound once said something like there's no record of a critic saying anything important about writers who have come after him. I see these photos, and the authors all seem to be nineteen years old, and they're all named Jonathan. I'm just not drawn to it.

>> No.629744

>>629742
He mentioned like two of them and neither are that great anyway

>> No.629780

Yeah seconding Roth. And Pynchon obviously

>> No.629785

>>629576

his writing is such shit...

>> No.629790

>>629785
But that's the best thing about his books