It's been years since we had something like Richard Yates.
Was tao yin the last great truly modern author of our times?
Where has all the quality lit gone?
Where has all the quality modern lit gone?
Adrian Miller
Luis Sanchez
Go to bed Tao.
Just finished Taipei and am intrigued to say the least. Same with his poems too. I generally completely loathe 'hipster' 'non-academic' poetry but he seems to be on to something in at least some of his work.
That being said I do not think he was the 'last truly great' (despite having not read MUCH contemporary literature) because the scope of his work doesn't seem wide enough.
Do I think he encapsulates a lot of important/relevant cultural ideas? Yes, absolutely. He is great in that regard. Does that make him THE great? I wouldn't go that far.
Daniel Phillips
excited for Trip
David Perry
salt.
Aaron Lee
Literature is a dead art form that nobody besides pseuds gives a fuck about anymore. Anyone with any modicum of writing talent nowadays is trying to work their way into the film or television industry. Why would someone waste their creative abilities on an irrelevant, outdated, medium when they can instead apply their talents to something people are actually interested in?
Jonathan Lewis
alt-lit was dumb and obviously pointed to nothing promising coming after it. you'd probably have to learn russian to read anything good modern
Levi Perez
Did someone say modern lit?
Asher Foster
You won't find it by asking here. Try reading a blog like The Millions of Literary Hub or The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, n+1, The Believer, etc., like normal adults do.
Elijah Peterson
Richard Yates was pure dogshit. Please don't post on this board anymore.
Mason Rodriguez
Tao Lin is absolutely great and sadly without rivals in his field. AutismWave is severly underdeveloped, probably because most autists like Tao succumb to video games or a more severe addiction to internet than that of Tao's.
He's a great essayist, short story writer and novellist. His poetry makes me laugh, i don't know what to think about that.
Most importantly he's created a language which fits our time and many's people reality. Where are the others who write like this? I suppose there must be some and we just don't know, it seems to me unlikely even that Tao was ever published.
Carson Price
Film is dying too, although much slower than books. Think the next logical step in the evolutionary path of video games. All entertainment, books included, have been steps on the path toward wireheading. To produce art from any entertainment is fight against the telos of simulation.
Alexander Powell
Literature, Movies, Videogames, Art are worthless because of the amount of talentless hacks who doesn´t how to approach those mediums in a good way, i don´t care too much since i like to consume old media
Brody Rivera
how would i know, i'm still halfway through the classics.
Michael Jackson
Look who's running the industry, destroying standards, and promoting shitty writers and writing. This can be turned around but the JQ has to be solved first.
Asher Butler
>tao lin
>modern
you must mean contemporary OP, pls
Luis Harris
It died with the rise of Invisible style.
Daniel Ross
twitter, didn't mena say to stop posting his tweets on Veeky Forums?
Luke Edwards
Culture is based on waht goes against the currents. None of what appears in that picture will be remembered as subversive, but as a weird mainstream that lacks any variety, that it may be considered oposed to those ideologies of the previous generations, but so has every other generation, renegating the past or giving praise to that which they don't understand. Once you learn to look back and read our legacy as part of our life and a extetion of the present, you'll be trully revolutionary.
Jack Johnson
Guess I shouldn't be surprised when someone who keeps cartoons on their computer and can't spell fails to make a coherent point.
David Brooks
that's an impure bread whore in pic related. HAve some self respec
Evan Hall
i'm starting to feel bad about the schadenfreude I experience when anime posters are viciously condemned by anons