/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10107594]

What are the most important/influential/interesting current writers?

I've spent a long time reading all kinds of works from the past, even if it was near past. Now I'd like to see what the present has to offer

[Anonymous No.10107609]

Literature ceased being influential with the invention of radio and television.

[Anonymous No.10107629]

>>10107594
Franzen and Murakami stand out to me. Not memeing. Under 40? Chimamanda. Americanah is fkn gud

[Anonymous No.10107642]

>>10107594
N.N. Taleb, Nick Land, Rene Girard, Chuck Tingle

[Anonymous No.10107643]

>>10107609
But that's wrong

[Anonymous No.10107653]

>>10107643
Just trying to stir shit up, you know me.

[Anonymous No.10107886]

>>10107629
>Franzen

lel

[Anonymous No.10107898]

Hasn't Vollman reached "great writer" status already?

[Anonymous No.10107910]

>>10107609
*internet

[Anonymous No.10107913]

>>10107594
Recently, gnomanon on the left is pretty much the only really relevant writer.

Btw. Michel... easy with the wine. (God, he looks so awful nowadays).

[Anonymous No.10107917]

>>10107594
Although the Nobel prize in literature is kind of a joke, the short list of probable winners has most of the living writers worth reading on it

[Anonymous No.10107941]

>>10107913
i'm pretty sure they're hamming up his ugliness as a marketing ploy

[Anonymous No.10107998]

>>10107629
>Under 40? Chimamanda. Americanah is

the ultimate prog lit

[Anonymous No.10108024]

[Anonymous No.10108445]

>>10107594
Dreams.....Simple. I could write a novel a day

[Anonymous No.10109297]

>>10107629
Franzen is honestly one of the most boring authors I've ever read. Americanah was enjoyable but pretty average overall; almost a recycled, and slightly changed version of Thiong'o's ideas.
>>10107594
Leaving out obvious picks like DeLillo and Pinecone, I guess that Krasznahorkai, Murakami and Vargas Llosa to a much lesser extent (his latest books have been horribly average). Mo Yan is a pretty interesting author, too.

Thiong'o and Adonis are okay. Knausgaard and Houllebecq are both fun and interesting, but that's it. Javier Marías and Atwood are horribly overrated.

Finally, you have the guys who're actually trying to mix aspects of their time with their writing, but for a reason or another, have failed: Jennifer Egan, Nathan Hill, Douglas Coupland, Joshua Cohen, Zadie Smith (White Teeth was good, though), Tao Lin, Chabon (to a much lesser extent), and others.

[Anonymous No.10109329]

William Trevor just passed away. I bought a collection of his short stories from the B&N bargain bin. Each one is masterful.

But the fact is that most of the action nowadays is in nonfiction. I find it quite disturbing that there is something of a golden age of independent media and nonfiction literature, but almost nothing in terms of fiction and poetry. The Reformation was fought not only in the pages of warring theological pamphlets, but also in the hymns congregations would sing together.

[Anonymous No.10109332]

>>10108024
ahahaha

[Anonymous No.10109774]

21st century literature is written in Spanish:

>2666, by Roberto Bolaño
>On the edge, by Rafael Chirbes
>The feast of the goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa
>Bartleby & Co., by Enrique Vila-Matas

Are other languages even trying?

[Anonymous No.10109786]

>>10109774
i dont think anyone is gona argue that anglosphere literature is completely fucked at the moment

[Anonymous No.10109791]

>>10109786
isn't*

[Anonymous No.10109996]

>>10109774
agreed, pic related.

[Anonymous No.10110072]

>>10107886
Franzen is great

[Anonymous No.10110112]

>>10109774
I don't know man, all of them are way past their 60s (or dead). I would have expected someone younger

[Anonymous No.10110178]

Tom McCarthy and Tobias Hill are pretty good. You should also Paolo Bacigalupi, if you can tolerate sci-fi

[Anonymous No.10110180]

>>10110178
*check out