Tfw u realize Jonathan Franzen is the best living novelist
Here's your (You)
woops sorry, OP here, I meant to type Taomas Pynchlin, boy what a silly typo
>>7996288
>Who is Gass
>Who is Pynchon
>Who is Corncob Tortillas
>Who is McElroy
>Who is DFW
>>7996323
>DFW
Memes never die.
>>7996288
That nigger's on Chipotle bags, the only thing he's best at is being a whining whore.
Gene Wolfe and Cormac McCarthy are still alive, so no.
>>7996323
Philip Roth much?
>>7996323
>corncob tortillas
kek
>>7996288
>Fr*nzen
>best living novelist
But of course the best living novelist isunknown to us, the author ofwork the publishers have passed on or haven't seen.
i cant bring myself to even give a shit enough to finish Purity. no he is not. not at all. corrections was cool, freedom was ok. i like tao lin but im not gonna make a hyperbolic statement
>>7996288
Toni Morrison aint dead yet bro
-checks if mccarthy is dead-
>>7997409
just no
>>7998819
tortilla no bueno
>>7998859
i hate that this is a meme now. i secretly hope you all die. this is one of the reasons i will never go to a /lit/ meetup
>>7998901
>i secretly hope you all die
it's not a secret if you tell us m8
>>7998901
no one would go to a /lit/ meetup, this aint reddit
>Hubert Selby Jr.
>Irving Welsh
>JM Coetzee
>Cormac Mcarthy
>Le Manhattan Mystery Man
>>7998977
Irvine Welsh you mean?
>>7998981
Yes, but if there is a person named Irving Welsh he's probably still better than Franzen.
Franzen is the Jeb Bush of literature
literally kill yourself
>>7996689
Someone's butthurt their slop wasn't published
>>7996288
>not Gass
>not Coover
>not Roubaud
>not Theroux
>not McElroy
>not Vollmann
>not Pynchon
K
>>7996288
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I think you're right, /lit./
>>7999043
Nope, it's >7996689 rather something to ponder
>>7998977
>Cormac McCarthy
Why doesn't this board talk about him? He's great
>>7999022
This Twally Dinnae Ken Wit he Speaks.
>>7996288
>Caring about living novelists
I've only read Franzen's translation of the classic Frank Wedekind play Spring Awakening, and I suppose it was decent enough. However, he prefaces it with a massive misunderstanding about how modern society can take a story and adapt it to their own purposes, citing the broadway musical in a ridiculous rant that bears no purpose other than to display that he chose to translate the original play simply because he hated the musical. What he doesn't understand, however, was that it was a musical. Of fucking course it wasn't faithful to the original intent of the play, it was a fucking musical. I've never read any of his other stuff, but he made himself look like a dumbass even in the few pages of forward that I saw from him.
>>7996653
wasn't funny
>>7998977
who is manhattan mystery man?
>>7997398
What don't you like about Purity? I'm at the part where she meets Wolf for the first time, and so far it's been pretty good. It's like a literary page-turner. Good characters, good prose, but it is pretty long-winded in sections. The actual narrative is what keeps me going though.
The best living novelist is Michel Houellebecq
>>7999343
Because the contrarians are mad that he's popular
He's not even the best living novelist named Jonathan Franzen
>>7999343
we used to a fair bit
Philip Roth you dolts
>>8002562
as if he's even close to Pinecone or Gass. Even Delillo is better
>>8000734
Pynchon lives in Manhattan (shh that's a secret)
>>8002568
I think he's great. Sabbath's Theater is amazing
>>7998920
Underrated comment
Delillo
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>>8004946
Pynchon > DeLillo
J. M. Coetzee, plebs.
>>7996322
>Taomas Pynchlin
I laughed too hard at this. Have a (you)
>>8004972
>tfw this dude lives in my city
>it's basically our only literary claim to fame
