So if we pretend that this board isn't 90% newfags and you can actually get viable responses, what are unironically the best prose writers besides the edge-lord backbone of classics? Surprise me, anons.
inb4 >>self-contradictory
Best prosaists for non-newfags
Anthony Howard
Hudson Richardson
breece d'j pancake
Evan Allen
Veejay Dubya had a good ear for this shit. She rated:
>Sterne
>Thomas Browne
>Lord Macaulay
>Walter Pater
They're all pretty good.
She was pretty good too.
Off the top of my head:
>Burroughs
>Woolf
>Nabokov
But Veejay had better taste than me
Elijah Green
Meh
Poor man's hemingway
Blake Diaz
Borges liked Stevenson
Carson Jackson
you suggest someone
Evan Thomas
that's me
Robert Harris
Burroughs rated Paul Bowles
Michael Roberts
gotcha. i think "besides the . . . backbone of classics" essentially eliminates everyone you suggested. not that they're bad (not really my taste, but i recognize their value), but they don't seem like the "surprise" picks op is looking for.
Wyatt Davis
Absolutely he did. Begin with this small essay, The Lamplighter, and youll be hooked (if -you- can read)