The classics are good, but 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". Does Veeky Forums have any fav 21st Century authors (that aren't John Green)?
For example, pic related is Junot Díaz - look him up.
Alexander Miller
Junot Diaz's accolades are the result of political correctness run amok. Utterly turgid writing punctuated by references to the lowest forms of popular culture.
Nolan Gray
Helen DeWitt
Diaz is meh
Luis Taylor
>21st century short story >it's written in second person
Justin Taylor
Miranda July Donna Tartt Jennifer Egan Blake Butler (not a big fan, but he's a critical darling so I included him) Tao Lin Ben Marcus
Ryder Gonzalez
The 21st Century just started. You're not going to find out who the actual greats of it are for at least another 2-5 decades.
Julian Green
Is that Ramon?
Blake Baker
Junot Diaz is a cunt. I'm not talking about his mediocrity, but he's a dick IRL, even before he was famous.
Christopher Jackson
LYDIA DAVIS Y D I A
D A V I S
Hunter Brooks
This.
Jacob Brown
>junot diaz >good
LOL
kys OP
also
>implying Veeky Forums doesn't know junot diaz
l m a o
Jack Ortiz
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.
Owen Clark
Knausgaard, Houellebecq, Ferrante
Ayden Taylor
a brief history of seven killings is great
Adam Turner
Joshua Cohen
Dominic Baker
I was about to make a thoughtful reply, but then I saw you posted Tao Lin. Shit b8 m8.
Chase Harris
Pascal Quignard, Javier Marias, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Isaiah Reyes
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.
Anthony Ross
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
Caleb Evans
Will Self
Ian Foster
Josh please go
Ethan Jones
He's gonna keep getting more and more famous.
Eli Bell
>Cohen Well the deck is really stacked against him
Aiden Gray
Why? Because he's Jewish?
Easton Adams
...
Leo Sullivan
Tom McCarthy
Brandon Garcia
Is there something wrong with the shape of his head?
Gavin Cooper
QUIT SHILLING TAO LIN ON A TRICYCLE
Ayden Smith
No there isn't, virgin
Asher Wilson
It's too thin.
Robert Kelly
You're just a creepy bitter virgin.
Hudson Mitchell
>le brown skinned author >le genius grant >le gibsmedat
JD is a hack
Brayden Edwards
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.
Ayden Flores
The dreaded insult! Good thing Diaz has written extensively to try to establish himself as someone who has sex.
Nolan Sanchez
You're a sour grapes virgin who never steps outside and sees the actual world.
Nathaniel Garcia
His mama had zika before it was cool
Elijah Mitchell
t.
Jonathan Lopez
Using the autistic meme is just proving my point.
Angel Bennett
>not YA >Junot Diaz
Jayden Rogers
Lol good point.
Chase Smith
>autistic meme
Aiden Lopez
Ishiguro and Murakami are the best writers of the 21th century desu
Colton Moore
mr I AM NOT A JAP and im a weeabo faggot, sux.
Tyler King
あんたのバカ!
Jacob Martin
What does t. mean? Thanks?
Matthew Robinson
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
Jacob Sanders
I love the one about cremains
Jackson Evans
b8
,OP
Chase Thomas
>Franzen has probably the two best 21st century books in The Corrections and Freedom This is hilarious
Isaiah Parker
>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.
Nathan Campbell
Junot please go
Henry Morgan
>This won a Pulitzer Prize
Dominic Martin
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.
Jace Gomez
Is John Green a good writer?
Ryder Wright
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.
Noah Adams
Blake Butler is not a critical darling. You fucking wet shit.
Joseph Sanchez
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
Parker Bailey
>LYDIA DAVIS She was married to Auster too. Huh.
Gabriel Scott
>captured the 21st Century zeitgeist This is really what you read for? Go outside.
Henry Butler
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.
Lucas Hill
Decolonize yr mind, ese.
Carson Torres
>His project is excising post-colonial ghosts How breathtakingly novel
Luis Cruz
What draws people to writing like this? Why don't they see how pandering and lazy it is?
Jonathan Davis
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.
Benjamin Rivera
>But if you're a fan of contemporary lit you're reading all these authors *Contemporary American 'literary fiction' you mean
Joshua Brooks
This, and Diaz belongs firmly outside that description in the ranks of pic related and momcore
Matthew Scott
Rachel Kushner is ver very good, pham.
Kevin Reed
>Reading anything after the 19th century
Dylan Thomas
>19th
Dohohoh this pleb
Kevin Bell
Human civilization lost any real worth in the 20th century; post-WW1/2, to be precise.
Now we are merely men among the ruins.
Samuel Sullivan
>I need 50 years' worth of critics to tell me if I like something
Carter Kelly
>reading books >not exporting authentic ural-Altaic bard from Siberia and having him recite you epic poems from memory
Nicholas Long
Has anyone here read Flee by Evan Dara? Iwhat did you think of it?
Liam Torres
But if a classical written work does literally the exact same thing, it's okay right?
Josiah Morris
i hate diaz
Jacob Brown
Turgid writing is never okay and I challenge you to name a "classical written work" comparable to that fetid piece of shit Oscar Wao
Jack Murphy
>like >actually being great
I like watching Capeshit, but that doesn't mean it's good, let alone great. there's a difference.
Joseph Young
>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.
Tyler Anderson
"Woman" is a noun, Anonymous. The word you're looking for is "female". It should be "female authors".
Josiah Gutierrez
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.
Julian Perez
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.
James Wilson
>pic related is Junot Díaz - look him up
This is shockingly low-level trolling.
Juan Hernandez
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Kevin Gonzalez
It's what I read contemporary things for. Use your inside voice.
Michael Bennett
It’s amazing just how high up a plastic bag can fly when caught in an updraft.
Brody Bennett
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.
Easton Jackson
>I'm proud of how memed the fuck out I am by the publishing industry's autistic gatekeepers. W E W
Kayden Cook
Literature is obsolete. All our generations best minds are occupied with memes.
Leo Myers
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.
Camden Powell
Memes are obsolete too, grandad. Spontaneous performance art pieces by schizophrenics in public places are where it's at.
Nicholas Gray
How art brut.
Jack Ramirez
Yeah, the difference is there is no such thing as being great, and there is such a thing as liking something.
Leo Cook
>there is no such thing as being great Well spooked, lad.
Nathan Allen
that guy posted something he wrote in an hour on here enough to make people believe it was readable
Lucas Parker
>le wrong generation
Parker Morales
>tfw junot díaz may die in your lifetime
Xavier Mitchell
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.
Tyler Hill
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.
Leo James
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.
Bentley Reed
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.