American Literature

read Pierre by Melville and see how far he collapses after Moby Dick
because the OP says american authors, but the tards with the dinner-party tastes were too semiliterate to read all the words in his sentence

William James
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anton Wilson
C.S. Pierce

no one mentions Thomas Jefferson
or James Madison

>because the OP says american authors, but the tards with the dinner-party tastes were too semiliterate to read all the words in his sentence

>Gee what should I consider a great american work, Death of a Salesman or ThOmAs JeFfErSoN's NoTeS oN tHe StAtE oF ViRgInIa

But the others on your list all have bad work too

>too retarded to make the connection between oppic and joke replies
>goes on to sperg about others being retarded

or Thomas Paine for that matter

trust me
read Pierre

Not in order.
>my fucking man Mark Twain
>big ol' William Gass
>my queer heartthrob Hart Crane
>gotta have Faulkner in here
>hell, let's hear it for my girl Flannery O'Connor

Mark Twain totally slipped my mind

Toni Morisson
Sylvia Plath
Emily Dickenson
Donna Tart
Nora Roberts

Okay if you say so

>Melville
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There are no other substantial american authors.

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>Melville
>Pynchon
>Salinger
>Twain
>Fitzgerald

>James Baldwin
>Toni Morrison
>Thomas Sowell
>Cornel West
>Maya Angelou

SHIEEEET

>Steinbeck
>Hawthorne
>Raymond Carver
>Melville
>Thoreau

Someone's getting laid tonight

Dick
Hemingway
Nabokov
Bradbury (he's American right?)
And that's about it

>Ray Bradbury
>Thomas Jefferson
>Robert E. Howard
>So far, I'm enjoying Dune, so Frank Herbert

Mark Twain is a great choice.

poet- dickinson, whitman, ashbery, ammons, stevens
writer- h. adams, melville, r.h. dana, a.j. liebling, loren eisley

>Bradbury American?
Dandelion Wine chronicles his all-American youth. Great book.

hemingway
fitzgerald
faulkner

and then 2 others significantly less than than these

>Pynchon
>Faulkner
>McCarthy
>Melville
>Dylan

>novelists/essayists
Don Delillo
Thomas Pynchon
Joan Didion
James Baldwin
Jack Kerouac

>poets
frank O' hara
Yusuf komunyakaa
Gary Snyder

Unironically, probably about as Veeky Forums as it gets. My own list would actually be a little different, but this is 100% patrician taste, regardless. Extremely high brow, keep up the good work.

You're right about James Madison, so I'll list him first:

Madison
Melville
Faulkner
Henry James
Frank Norris
H.H. Jackson
W. E. B. Du Bois
Wallace Stegner
William Carlos Williams
Mark Twain
Steinbeck
Baldwin
Vonnegut
Arthur Miller
Robinson Jeffers
Pynchon
Don DeLillo
Didion
Snyder
Hejinian
Plath
McCarthy
David Foster Wallace
Mark Z. Danielewski
Teju Cole

I like your style m8

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>Roth
>Bellow
>Stein
>Salinger
>Dylan
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>Hawthorne
>Melville
>Whitman
>James
>Hemingway

PKD
Hemingway
Twain
Whitman
CS Lewis

>Thomas Pynchon
>William Inge
>John Steinbeck
>Nabokov
>Arthur Miller or William Gaddis

19th century American authors a shit. Mark Twain offers nothing other than color, Melville doesn't need to be so wordy, Hawthorne was a wannabe Englishman, and Edgar Allen Poe was just an early genre writer. Henry James was getting somewhere, but ruined his interesting stories with absolute shit prose.

>Melville
>DeLillo
>Thoreau
>Emerson
>Twain

Runners up are DFW, Faulkner, Pynchon, Steinbeck, Hemingway, O'Connor, McCarthy. Honestly I need to read more American Lit, still.

What's your favorite Steinbeck? Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Cannery Row got me into literature a couple years ago, and I checked out Sweet Thursday the other day and the first couple of chapters were only alright. It was kind of sad.

+1 for being the only one vying for Thoreau

melville
stevens
dickinson
o'neill
wilder

Gaddis
Melville
Faulkner
Hart Crane
Henry James

Paine wasn't born or raised in America.

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>collapses after Moby Dick
>cherry-picks that work but fails to take note that Bartleby came after Pierre, which Borges praised as being Kafka before Kafka.

>doesn't need to be so wordy
>lists Gaddis, Pynchon, Nabokov

I'm a new fag so please no bully
>Steinbeck
>PKD
>Heller
Das it