What are some good books about modern America?
the constitution
The Dubliners
Pastoralia by George Saunders.
The Holy Bible ( king james edition)
If modern means 60s and beyond, Pynchon.
I hear DFW is good if you want an idea of the zeitgeist in the 90s, I haven't read him though.
If modern means 00s to present, pfffft... all I can think of that approaches /lit/ quality are the collected works of Paul Auster. Individually they're light reading, together they form a unified tapestry of middle class and slum life in the northeast U.S. But even still he wrote his best stuff to this date in the 80s and 90s. His newest, 4321, is supposed to come out January and it seems ambitious and worthy of hype. I guess you could include Pynchon and McCarthy's new stuff.
There might be plenty of decent books about the here-and-now but idk about anything /lit/ worthy. Hopefully we don't get invaded by Tao Lin shills because he's pretty garbage t b q h.
I actually hope someone ITT can surprise me.
>>8214198
what do you mean by modern?
>>8214255
post 9/11
This is the most honest answer in the thread.
>>8214198
Wells. This guy was 100% right and will be even more in 10 years.
>>8214321
>For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the internet, Tyler Oakley has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book: he experienced a legitimate rage blackout in a Cheesecake Factory; he had a fashion stand-off with the White House secret service; he crashed a car in front of his entire high school in his fast food restaurant server's uniform; he projectile vomited while bartering with a grandmother.
>With millions of fans clamouring for more Tyler Oakley, he delivers his best untold, hilariously side-splitting moments with trademark flair in Binge.
How come whenever we hear about new and upcoming lit and authors, it's some worthless cunt whose writing embraces the worst stereotypes of a millenials? I'm 22 and their problems are not my problems nor are they interesting problems.
>>8214339
>books your gf thinks are profound that you stop reading after twenty pages
>>8214321
oh...oh no
>>8214339People would have said the exact same thing about Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas 45 years ago, anon. As you grow older, this millennial nonsense will only be seen as more engaging and legitimate than how it is seen already.
>>8214350
looks like a real classic
Bleeding Edge - Pynchon
Purity - Franzen
that's all I can think of
Neuromancer
White Noise - Don Delillo
>>8214254
Time to read outside of the /lit/ classics guy.
>>8214198
Catch-22.
my diary desu
>>8214321
>these amazon customer images
eli eli lema sabachthani
>>8214571
oh shaz familia
a people's history of the United States
>>8214350
>People would have said the exact same thing about Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas 45 years ago, anon
Except they didn't and that would be wrong in any case
Generation X - Coupland
Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney
finished The Goldfinch a while ago and fuckin' loved it.
>>8214692
I read The Secret History and it was fucking great too. Just picked up Goldfinch and can't wait to get into it.
>pic related /lit/-core Donna Tartt
inb4 women authors
