Hey /lit/,
Has anything good been written in the 21st century so far? Other than old literary figures like DeLillo, Pynchon, McCarthy who are still producing works, are there any newer authors who've produced works good enough to endure?
I've heard a lot of good things about Knausgaard, but I can't think of anyone else.
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Tao Lin is pretty good, start with ''Bed''
What counts as an old figure? Are you asking if any 16 year olds have written classic works of literature? Do Peter Carey, W. G. Sebald, and Coetzee count as old figures?
Few writers create anything of real value until at least their 40s. Especially not in literary fiction which is a dead medium.
Bernard Werber
>>7978316
Anyone who didn't get well established in the 20th century I mean.
And is it really a dead medium? Is it really that far-gone?
Ron Currie, Jr is pretty good.
Rafael Chirbes. His novels 'Crematorium' and 'On the edge' are two masterpieces that anyone with any interest of 21st century Europe should read.
>>7978289
This is amazing!!
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Middle C
The Pale King
The Dying Grass
Against the Day
Cannonball
His Wife Leaves Him
A Naked Singularity
The No World Concerto
In Partial Disgrace
>>7978707
this new falseflagging strategy just makes us hate you more
>>7978332
By those parameters, I would say Adam Johnson. His most recent collection of stories, Fortune Smiles, is the best collection I've read in a long time. The only thing I tell everyone is that the first story is the weakest in the collection. It's straight good fiction without getting into PoMo trendiness. He manages to write empathetically about people who are truly considered monsters in society. Dark Meadow and George Orwell was a Friend of Mine are the two best in that book imo.
Link to him reading Dark Meadow:
http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/35995/adam-johnson-reads-2.html
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
