Name a better American author

Pro-tip: You can't.
>b-but Pynchon and . . . H-Hemingway
Try again, nerd.

James Joyce

>that pit stain
no thanks

>literally who
:^)

Ambrose Bierce

>Hemingway
lol

Melville isn't too bad.

Why are you shilling Salinger lately?

Sherwood Anderson.

Melville

David Foster Wallace

Again I ask...where is all the stuff he was writing for the last 30 years? Joyce Maynard (among others) saw him writing and locking it up every day. The publishers said it would start being released in 2015 or 2016. So far, not even a posthumous postcard. WHERE ARE MY NEW ESMES? REEEEEEEEEEE

Melville, Gaddis, Twain

Just finished this. Breddy gud. I just wonder why people see his horror as political allegory, but no one (that I know of) sees much of that in Lovecraft.

>tfw there are new Glass Family stories stowed away somewhere on this earth

Hnnnnnnnng

Damn. Meant to make a new thread with that. Oh well. Will discuss if anyone replies.

william h gass
joseph mcelroy

not even trying that hard

It is killing me. I'm not young. There's a lot of other reading I want to do. But I will totally make room for JD if they will just push him into print.

I literally can't, OP.

Babby probably just read his second Salinger, me thinks.

Lovecraft
Hemingway (fuck you)
Melville
Ezra Pound

YES

Catcher in the Rye is the most overrated novel in American Literature, and if it wasnt forced upon generation after generation of youth by wistful teachers longing for a "simpler" time of youth, it would be fucking nothing.

>hasn't read Salinger's other works