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