ITT : Awesome writers you've never seen discussed on Veeky Forums

Is that the guy from how I met your mother?

H. G. Wells
My absolute favorite when I was younger.

The best thing that ever came out of Sweden.

James Joyce

I'm interested, could you tell us more ? Who could you compare Genet with ? What do his plays provide ?

Same questions here

I used to dislike Vian until I read some novels he wrote as "Vernon Sullivan". That was great., "I'll spit on your graves" deserves more publicity. Some of the short stories are fine too.

Etgar Keret
A genius.

I discovered this guy thanks to Veeky Forums. I don't think I would have heard of him otherwise. Same with Robert Walser. Genet too, come to think of it. But then again, this was in 2012.

Didn't know Iniesta was also a writer.

Any recs? All of his I've read is "What, of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?" and while I guess I didn't hate it, I didn't think much of it.

I shill Genet on every opportunity I get. He's incredibly underrated.

Genet is really good and really gay. He died of throat cancer.

His books are mostly about fags and criminals on the underworld of Paris or prisons during the 1940s. Lots of violence and steamy gay sex with marvelous and florid prose. Somewhat similar to Gide, Céline and Bataille.

Start with Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs.

>Being too pleb to know who he is

John Dos Passos

I picked up The 42nd Parallel second hand when a friend said it "seemed like something I would like" according to how his professor described it, but he's mever read it. I'm planning on starting it today, I just finished another book last night. What do you think of it?

begone gurdy

I recommend William Inge's "My Son Is A Splendid Driver"

It's a memoir about a literary guy who grows up feeling incapable of living up to the standards of masculinity set by his older brother (the "splendid driver"). Very interesting and rather moving story of a midwestern family

Jean Genet

G.B. Edwards.
Seconding this. Heartsnatcher still haunts me

You would like his ideas I think.
Michel Tournier. Underrated here.

I feel like this would become meme-tier if most of Veeky Forums would read it.

He looks scared and concerned.

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like Nabokov tier

I love this passage about woman being male's sexual organs

I dont swing this way, but the image of this fellow in charge of a boys school is infinitely amusing.

Imagine my happiness when I could buy a used volume of "Des clefs et des serrures" in France. Nowhere to be found. Tournier was as good as a photographer as he was a writer.

Paul Beatty
Samuel Delany
Toni Morrison
Terrance Hayes
Clarence Major
Charles Wright
Clarence Cooper Jr.
Chester Himes
Dennis Cooper
James Ellroy
Bob Kaufman
James Baldwin
Ishmael Reed
Dambudzo Marechera
Pervical Everett

ROBERT BURTON. AKA THE DON. AKA DEMOCRITUS JR

Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes

Don't be a square bruh, that dude is far out and groovy

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This book made me feel phoric.

Bump for the best thread on Veeky Forums right now

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