21st Century Literature thread

>junot diaz
>good

LOL

kys OP

also

>implying Veeky Forums doesn't know junot diaz

l m a o

Blake Butler gets very tiresome to read, but I still admire what he's doing. His short stories are great -- it's a shame he doesn't write more of them.

Knausgaard, Houellebecq, Ferrante

a brief history of seven killings is great

Joshua Cohen

I was about to make a thoughtful reply, but then I saw you posted Tao Lin. Shit b8 m8.

Pascal Quignard, Javier Marias, Laszlo Krasznahorkai

My 21st Century favorites are

Michael St. Wood (Yurope)
MNMDR (Behead All Satans)
Roberto Pinchas (Tao Lin On A Tricycle)

No one other than them so far has truly captured the 21st Century zeitgeist.

Pic related is probably the best in literary fiction right now. Night Women, Brief History and John Crow's Devil are fantastic

Ella Ferante, Houellebecq and Ishiguro are also obvious current masters. The Buried Giant and The Neapolitan Novels receive universal praise, even here (use the archive).

Donald Ray Pollock is fascinating

Fuck Diaz, him and Yanagihara are writers for the legions of post-structuralist female english majors

Will Self

Josh please go

He's gonna keep getting more and more famous.

>Cohen
Well the deck is really stacked against him

Why? Because he's Jewish?

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Tom McCarthy

Is there something wrong with the shape of his head?

QUIT SHILLING TAO LIN ON A TRICYCLE

No there isn't, virgin

It's too thin.

You're just a creepy bitter virgin.

>le brown skinned author
>le genius grant
>le gibsmedat

JD is a hack

How is this shilling? The thread is about 21st Century authors and I named three along with one work of theirs each for easy identification.

The dreaded insult! Good thing Diaz has written extensively to try to establish himself as someone who has sex.

You're a sour grapes virgin who never steps outside and sees the actual world.

His mama had zika before it was cool

t.

Using the autistic meme is just proving my point.

>not YA
>Junot Diaz

Lol good point.

>autistic meme

Ishiguro and Murakami are the best writers of the 21th century desu

mr I AM NOT A JAP and im a weeabo faggot, sux.

あんたのバカ!

What does t. mean? Thanks?

James is a beast. Ironically, his project is very similar to Diaz, who I find engaging, smart, and accessible.
Franzen has probably the two best 21st century books in The Corrections and Freedom
Zadie Smith deserves a mention too

I love the one about cremains

b8

,OP

>Franzen has probably the two best 21st century books in The Corrections and Freedom
This is hilarious

>Depending on your fanboy orientation either the first or second most famous desert planet in nerdom. Again when I saw those landscapes in Star Wars I felt surge of kinship. Shit, on first viewing I also thought my man’s name was Juan Kenobi. But that’s what happens when you’re an immigrant kid of color in a culture that erases your community completely.

junot Diaz is the greatest author of the century so far. His work is engaging, contemporary and relatable. but be warned he is extremely subtle and you have to pay very close attention to understand what he means to say.

Junot please go

>This won a Pulitzer Prize

examples pls. I hate his writing. absolutely cannot stand it and im tired of my normie friends bringing him up. I dont even comment on it when it happens, but I want something to back up my disdain for his work besides the drivel that he spouts.

Is John Green a good writer?

This post makes me not want to read James anymore. I thought he could be interesting, but if he writes for the Franzen/Diaz/Smith crowd he must be irredeemable trash.

Blake Butler is not a critical darling. You fucking wet shit.

His project is excising post-colonial ghosts, which is also Diaz's. I'd say James prose-wise is more similar to Kincaid. But if you're a fan of contemporary lit you're reading all these authors--it's funny that you decide what's middle brow when they are all admitted fans of each other. Wallace and Zadie were pals, and DeLillo is a big Franzen fan

>LYDIA DAVIS
She was married to Auster too. Huh.

>captured the 21st Century zeitgeist
This is really what you read for? Go outside.

Junot jodete. Porfavor salta de un edificio de cinco pisos. no perdon, eso fue muy cruel, mejor salta de uno de siete para que not tengas un velorio abierto.

Decolonize yr mind, ese.

>His project is excising post-colonial ghosts
How breathtakingly novel

What draws people to writing like this? Why don't they see how pandering and lazy it is?

I can't say whether user was being sarcastic, but my assumption would be that while it might have helped him get a foothold on the scene, he's never going to make it with a name that's not only heavily charged, but already and not yet taken. He'd have to actually be great, whereas his short stories are at best entertaining, and his larger projects all tired and desperately ambitious failures.

I wish Marlon James weren't such a bloat monster, but despite his faults he's probably still the best answer ITT. If you don't believe it, just look at how little there's been in the way of the usual political correctness complaints regarding his winning the Booker prize.

>But if you're a fan of contemporary lit you're reading all these authors
*Contemporary American 'literary fiction' you mean

This, and Diaz belongs firmly outside that description in the ranks of pic related and momcore

Rachel Kushner is ver very good, pham.

>Reading anything after the 19th century

>19th

Dohohoh this pleb

Human civilization lost any real worth in the 20th century; post-WW1/2, to be precise.

Now we are merely men among the ruins.

>I need 50 years' worth of critics to tell me if I like something

>reading books
>not exporting authentic ural-Altaic bard from Siberia and having him recite you epic poems from memory

Has anyone here read Flee by Evan Dara? Iwhat did you think of it?

But if a classical written work does literally the exact same thing, it's okay right?

i hate diaz

Turgid writing is never okay and I challenge you to name a "classical written work" comparable to that fetid piece of shit Oscar Wao

>like
>actually being great

I like watching Capeshit, but that doesn't mean it's good, let alone great. there's a difference.

>there is also some really good, serious (i.e not YA) post-millennial literature that seems to have been overlooked by Veeky Forums's resident "patricians"

What are you talking about m8?

Pychon published books in this era
DFW published books in this era
Delillo published books in this era
Gass published books in this era
Gene the Meme Wolfe published books in this era
Cormac MacArthur published books in this era
Bolano published books in this era
Denis "The Heroin Menace" Johnson published books in this era
Bill "Whores and Igloos" Vollmann published books in this era

The objective answer to your thread topic post is Helen DeWitt but we all know how much Veeky Forums likes woman authors.

"Woman" is a noun, Anonymous. The word you're looking for is "female". It should be "female authors".

Knausgaard is talked about a lot on this site. He's already entering meme-status since not a lot of people have read his work.

Most of those guys aren't really writing "post-millenial" literature. Equally the idea that a 20 something would make anything other than dogshit is ridiculous.

>pic related is Junot Díaz - look him up

This is shockingly low-level trolling.

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It's what I read contemporary things for. Use your inside voice.

It’s amazing just how high up a plastic bag can fly when caught in an updraft.

Publishing in the era isn't the same as being an author of the era. Those guys were all pushing 40 or over and had several books out before the year 2000. As much as I like a few of those names, they're irrelevant to this discussion.

>I'm proud of how memed the fuck out I am by the publishing industry's autistic gatekeepers.
W E W

Literature is obsolete. All our generations best minds are occupied with memes.

In his defense, MFA classes and professors are total bullshit.

That being said, his reasons for calling them out are why he's considered a joke.

Memes are obsolete too, grandad. Spontaneous performance art pieces by schizophrenics in public places are where it's at.

How art brut.

Yeah, the difference is there is no such thing as being great, and there is such a thing as liking something.

>there is no such thing as being great
Well spooked, lad.

that guy posted something he wrote in an hour on here enough to make people believe it was readable

>le wrong generation

>tfw junot díaz may die in your lifetime

Franzen is the Jeb Bush of literature
Sad, dejected, has to pretend to take himself seriously to make up for the fact that nobody else does. He's the would-be bastion of new sincerely, which is to say he isn't because his books don't hold up under any kind of sincere scrutiny. I think Oprah putting him on her list really ruined him. It turned him from a mediocre high-brow author to a quality middle-brow author. And that shot him straight out of the canon, so to speak. Now he has to pretend he's as good as the middle-aged housewives who read him say he is. Poor guy.

franzen is better than he gets credit for on Veeky Forums . There was a reason he rejected the Oprah shit, because communities like Veeky Forums wont respect you if you Oprah likes you. It doesnt make sense, but it's true.

There are a dozen threads a day fellating that thesaurus-abuser McCarthy. Franzen isn't to be respected because he writes milquetoast garbage for soccer moms. At least John Green owns up to being nothing more than what he is.

That statement doesn't make any sort of coherent sense because the fact that it was written in an hour and as sloppily as possible is in the description as a selling point. There was no chicanery involved because it explicitly says that it was just some dumb shit written in an hour.

If people deemed it worthwhile it was while being fully aware of these things, not because of some ridiculous mesmerization.