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What's the best contemporary literature? And by contemporary,
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What's the best contemporary literature? And by contemporary, I don't mean from the 70s or so. Like, what are ten books written in the last ten years that're worth creaming my /lit/-pants over.
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PHILIP K DICKINSON
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>>7748202
森見登美彦
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>>7748202
Try the Tenth of December by George Saunders.
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House of Leaves is arguably creamworthy, even if Danielewski has been diminishing its uniqueness by being formulaic in his later works

Gene Wolfe's best stuff isn't even that old, just '90s
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agreed. Gene Wolfe all the way.
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Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You
Lydia Davis - can't and won't
Blake Butler - Scorch Atlas
Edgar Keret - The Girl on the Fridge
Magda Szabo - The Door
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>>7748202
Pynchon is still writing.
Cormac McCarthy is still writing.
Rushdie and Bello are still writing.
The Pale King by DFW is phenomenal and was released within the decade.
Will Chancellor has his moments but needs to cool it with the pseudo shit.
City on Fire wasn't half bad.
Isn't Terror relatively recent?
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