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Who are the best contemporary prose stylists? Easy mode: still breathing. Hard mode: under 40.

>> No.10339852

>easy mode: still breathing
that's hard mode
>hard mode: under 40
there is no literally no good prose stylist under 40

>> No.10341466

Bump.

>> No.10341509

>>10339852
Tao Lin had his moments in Taipei, although the book didn't really go anywhere

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>> No.10341645

>>10339846
I’m not the most well read, but here are the people that really impressed me.

Tim O’Brien
John Banville
James Salter (died in 2014)
Marilynne Robinson

>> No.10341847

>>10339846
William Gass. Joseph McElroy. Ali Smith. James Kelman. John Banville. John Crowley. Mark Helprin.

>> No.10341924

>>10341514
>niggernotions
>nigger-gehenna
>niggersoiled
toplel