Give me recs please. Not faulkner.
Carson McCullers
Flannery O'Connor.
Tennessee Williams
>>8288893
other voices other rooms by truman capote
>>8288924
This. Go for 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'
>>8288893
The author spent his first 30 years of adulthood as a factory worker on the west virginia-kentucky line.
Excellent work.
>>8289092
his collection of short stories Knockemstiff, Ohio, is pretty good as well. Not sure if it counts as southern gothic, but it's close.
Go Down, Moses
>>8288893
Robert Edmond Alter
cross between southern gothic and hardboiled crime.
And early Cormac McCarthy
>>8289922
All of it, yes.
>>8289960
Her last book got bad reviews though... Have you actually read them all? I was thinking about getting the Library of America edition of her works.
>>8290138
LoA editions are always super comfy. I haven't read that much of hers, but I'd buy the book just because it looks/smells/feels so great. It even sounds great, as you're flicking through those wafer-thin pages. NNNggghhhh!
William Gay I Hate to See the Evening Sun Go Down and Provinces of Night
Tom Franklin Poachers
Larry Brown - Father and Son; Joe; and Big Bad Love
Shelby Foote - Follow Me Down and Love in A Dry Season
>>8288961
This.
Also, Outer Dark and Child of God by McCarthy
>>8290138
> Her last book got bad reviews though... Have you actually read them all?
How old are you? You seem to have no conception of how adult readers relate to writers. Readers form individual opinions, and even if it was bad, to a McCullers reader it would be worth reading. You're a cretin.
>>8290158
forgot
A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews
