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Someone on the tinychat gave this to me. How well does this cover essential American literature? What's it missing?

this is really honestly emberassing, disregard it completely op, i really don't mean to troll

They did it as a joke, these are all meme authors (although some of them definitely are important in american literature).
Just look into famous or acclaimed or canonical american writers, find a book that interests you and read it - if you find it too difficult move onto something that is easier and then return the previous work later. You don't need all these flowcharts to tell you exactly what to read, just use them as a way to find similar works to the ones you enjoy.

Isn't Infinite Jest post-pomo ?

post-homo?

Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, James Brahs, Crane, Twain, Dickinson, Whitman, Cather, Dreiser, West, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Hem, Faulkner, Frost, Eliot, Welty, Mccullers, Penn Warren, Morrison, Salinger, Robinson, McCarthy, Updike, Bellow, Delillo, Pinecone

Why is white noise even in there lol

Those are good books but categorized bizzarely.

haha

Whittier, Longfellow, Poe, Bierce, Pound, Williams, Stevens, Aiken, Stein, Miller, Crane, Moore, Toomer, Ransom, Cheever, Mailer, Ellison, Barth, Styron, Mailer, Lowell, Berryman, Bishop, Malamud, Dickey, Yates