what are some NYC novels?
What are some NYC novels?
John Wright
Liam Miller
The Victim by Saul Bellow
Nathaniel Perry
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Luke Torres
Art of the Deal
Jason Gonzalez
American Psycho
Christian Clark
War and War
Wyatt Myers
New friends don't know about Tao Lin. He used to post here and he was part of a literary movement called alt-lit that came and went about 5 years ago. He lived in New York from about 2001 to about ~2015 and "Taipei", despite its title, takes place primarily in New York City.
Most of his novels have some part of the story taking place in New York. He references the characters in his story visiting "the literature board of Veeky Forums.org" in Richard Yates I think.
Believe it or not this guy was a big meme on Veeky Forums in the past and he is also a respected novelist. The New York Times said of "Taipei", "here we have a serious, first-rate novelist putting all his skills to work" [1]. Bret Easton Ellis said of the book, "with 'Taipei' Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation, which doesn't mean that 'Taipei' isn't a boring novel..." [2].
[1] nytimes.com
[2] twitter.com
Jacob Peterson
read already
do these describe the scenery of the city?
Michael Sanchez
Catcher in the rye
Mario Puzo’s books
Aaron Long
sometimes. from the first paragraph:
>On some nights New York is as hot as bangkok. The whole continent seems to have moved from its place and slid nearer the equator, the bitter gray Atlantic to have become green and tropical, and the people, thronging the streets, barbaric fellahin among the stupendous monuments of their mystery, the lights of which, a dazing profusion, climb upward endlessly into the heat of the sky.
Christopher Martin
yea thats pretty damn good
Bentley Brown
So I interned in NYC last summer and hated the city, felt alienated/depressed/disaffected the whole time, and pretty much all I did was work and pretend to have fun going out to bars/clubs.
Will this book give me that feel? I guess I'm looking for something like Less Than Zero
Sebastian Cox
It's nice seeing Bellows get some love on Veeky Forums. I've only read Herzhog but if I'm not mistaken that also takes place in New York. War and War goes into some nauseating description of the city when Korin first gets there but the author does a good job of making the main character feel completely out of place.
Aaron Hill
War and War does exactly that
Tyler Butler
I can recommend
Underworld
American Psycho
The Corrections
10:04
Taipei
Logan Nguyen
Hmmmm go on, maybe I will
Gavin Smith
Don't read the Tao Lin book, it's trash. Everything I've read of his is really bad, he's just an old Veeky Forums meme. Not even just Veeky Forums, really, but the young American internet literature scene.
Oliver Harris
Go to bed, Tao.
Charles Myers
V.
Elijah Phillips
>New friends don't know about Tao Lin.
Thank Christ
Isaiah Ortiz
Kek
Jacob Richardson
Alternatively, what are some novels about Los Angeles?
William Hughes
Less than Zero by BEE
read it, but only if you're under 25
Ayden Flores
Similarly, I'm moving to DC in a few months, would appreciate novels that take place there (that aren't just political bullshit)
Justin Martinez
No one said Gatsby so far?
Veeky Forums I am disappointed.
Matthew Gutierrez
the rules state you must be 18 and older to post here
Jaxon Phillips
why are you moving to DC
Eli Morgan
The state as well, but holy shit you will come out knowing much much more about NYC after this behemoth.
Samuel Sanchez
The metropolis by Upton Sinclair
Connor Morris
Based Robert Caro
Gavin Martinez
>NYC
Jazz (no h8)
Bonfire of the Vanities (eh)
>LA
TCoL49
Play It as It Lays
this is a question for google
Nathan Perry
Anything Philip Marlowe is pretty fun for LA. Chandler does an excellent job evoking the feel of that time's Los Angeles.
Alexander James
Also the Brightness trilogy by McInery
Colton Ward
Graduating college in the spring, moving out there for work