Harold Blooms dies

Pinecone, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo are generally regarded as the big four of American literature

Why isn't Harold Bloom there?

His only novel is sci-fi fanfiction. Granted, it's well written, but he is far more important as a critic than a writer.

Lol, negative.

>Jorge Luis Borges,
A "colored" man of English and Spanish descent? lol
And Toni Morison being there is the problem

>Who are the next best novelists after The Big Four? Who’s going to carry the torches? Unlike many of you, I read current literature and maybe I’m just jaded but I don’t see a lot of geniuses under 50.
There aren't imo
A couple of them showed talent but never got anywhere

We're coasting off literary leftovers: Pynchon, Bloom, Edmund White, Banville, Richard Wilbur, etc
Once they're gone it's a freefall, pure and simple

The unironic Bloom posting has to stop.

for historical reasons yes but even female writers like Austen and Woolf are pretty mediocre and would be Franzen tier if they were male

Literally nothing of value would be lost. He is an authoritarian hack who bitches and moans when nobody cares about paying for his thoughts on why people who look just like him wrote the best books.

George Saunders, Steve Erickson, William Vollmann, David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, Peter Ackroyd, Ian McEwan, Michel Houellebecq are all good writers and under the age of 70