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2013-12-22 05:57 4392633 Anonymous (Gunter-Grass.jpg 700x535 93kB)
Who is the greatest living author?

3 min later 4392647 Anonymous
Tossup between Bret Easton Ellis and Maya Angelou.

9 min later 4392668 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
>>4392645 Read the question before posting.

15 min later 4392691 Anonymous
>>4392647 >Maya Angelou You shitting me?

17 min later 4392697 Anonymous
>>4392682 caps doesn't make your damage control successful

23 min later 4392714 Anonymous
>>4392691 Problem? Are you perhaps a racist?

24 min later 4392717 Anonymous
>>4392691 Can you provide a coherent critique of her poetry? Have you even read her? Or are you just upset someone could possibly enjoy a black woman's writing.

26 min later 4392720 Anonymous
>>4392682 Why haven't you been permabanned yet? You're by far the worst poster on this board. >inb4 you drop trip and defend yourself

27 min later 4392722 Anonymous (Krasznahorkai.jpg 500x349 227kB)
>>4392647 >Tossup between Bret Easton Ellis and Maya Angelou. 10/10 would lol again, at least you tried

28 min later 4392724 Anonymous
>>4392714 >>4392717 >>4392717 dat white guilt

29 min later 4392727 Anonymous
>>4392724 So you can't provide a coherent critique, then. Well, that's part for the course on /lit/ I suppose.

31 min later 4392731 Anonymous (tumblr_m3wr15TlkZ1rw07qzo1_500.gif 498x212 1019kB)
Cormac McCarthy

32 min later 4392733 Anonymous
>>4392727 >part for the course Alright then

34 min later 4392739 Anonymous (1366314903890.jpg 225x338 18kB)
>>4392727 >part for the course You should probably go ahead and just stop posting here. We have enough idiots already.

35 min later 4392741 Anonymous
>>4392733 Focusing on a typo doesn't make you look more intelligent, or cover up the fact that you haven't even read this author you criticize.

35 min later 4392742 Anonymous
>>4392714 >if he doesn't like a black person's writing, he must be racist! great logic

40 min later 4392749 Anonymous
>>4392741 Don't act like it was a typo. You misunderstood the idiom as being "part for the course", which is why you "accidentally" included another letter that just so happened to form a new word that seemed phonetically plausible. You fucked up and got an idiom wrong. Just cop to it and move on.

42 min later 4392755 Anonymous
Define greatness.

43 min later 4392756 Anonymous
me

50 min later 4392772 Anonymous
I enjoy Joseph McElroy

52 min later 4392777 Anonymous
>>4392749 It was a typo. The same way I sometimes type "scare" instead of "scar" for example. Look at your keyboard. Let's not lose the script, though. What is it, specifically, that you don't like about Maya Angelou?

1 hours later 4392783 Anonymous
>>4392633 Living, Pynchon. All-time, Pynchon.

1 hours later 4392785 Anonymous
>>4392777 >Let's not lose the script, though. What is it, specifically, that you don't like about Maya Angelou? I wasn't that particular anon, though if you were to press me for an opinion on the matter I would say that W. S. Merwin is a greater living poet, though she is definitely up amongst the greatest female poets like Anne Carson and Mary Oliver.

1 hours later 4392788 Anonymous
>>4392783 Pynchon, a loaf.

1 hours later 4392796 Anonymous
>>4392783 Yes. Inherent vice = shit. Bleeding edge = shit. TCOL49 = pynchon confirmed for shit. Im one hundred pages from fucking finally finishing gravitys rainbow and the verdict is? Shit. Lets bury the hatchet on this fraud today, lit. No more mention of Pynchon, ever. Thanks in advance :-)

1 hours later 4392810 Anonymous
>>4392796 >>4392788 the opinion of authors on this board change like fads in high school.

1 hours later 4392813 Anonymous
>>4392810 Not exactly, but timezones, school hours, and shitposting makes up for the difference.f

1 hours later 4392833 Anonymous
Probably me.

1 hours later 4392859 Anonymous
Nicanor Parra

1 hours later 4392877 Anonymous
Don DeLillo and Cynthia Ozick.

1 hours later 4392902 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
>>4392724 A typo doesn't excuse you/him from giving a fucking reason for shitting on Angelou as a great living writer.

15 hours later 4394122 Anonymous
Gene Wolfe

15 hours later 4394127 Anonymous (Horns.png 894x671 1088kB)
>>4392731 Without a doubt

15 hours later 4394141 Anonymous
the greats have always been decided upon by popularity. Dostoevsky was certainly a bestseller in russia. Canturbury Tales, everyone wanted to get their hands on that. Charles Dickens, the best selling author in history. Lolita. Therefore it's going to have to be Stephen King and JK Rowling. No matter how much literary elite believe otherwise (as was definitely the case in all the other time periods)

15 hours later 4394166 Anonymous
>>4394141 Most everyone knows about No Country for Old Men and The Road. Why not McCarthy?

15 hours later 4394182 Oh boy.
>>4392902 How was he "shitting" on Angelou? Why do you even believe Angelou is a great writer? >>4394141 >the greats have always been decided upon by popularity. Right.

17 hours later 4394661 Anonymous
>>4392633 The first thing that popped into my head was "Hey Mr. Wilson!"

17 hours later 4394675 Anonymous
>>4392796 No based Mason & Dixon or based Against the Day

17 hours later 4394700 Anonymous
>>4392633 Can’t say that he is still “alive”, because he has been fighting old age dementia for some time and can’t actually reason anymore, but Gabriel Garcia Márquez is the best living author. >So, Gabriel Garcia Márquez.

17 hours later 4394702 Tallis
>>4392647 Ellis m8

17 hours later 4394716 Anonymous
>>4392783 This. Either Pynchon or Roth.

17 hours later 4394735 Anonymous
>>4394716 Yeah, I'd have to say McCarthy, Pynchon, or Roth. If you can't agree with one of those, I can't agree with you.

17 hours later 4394738 Anonymous (dbrown.jpg 640x360 86kB)
He knows how to build suspense and mystery better than any writer I've ever read. He might even be better than Dean Koontz

18 hours later 4394771 Anonymous
>>4394738 it's easy to sneer at this, but there's certainly a high level of craft in good genre fiction. i would add, however, that whilst there is craft, there is no art.

20 hours later 4395036 Anonymous
>>4392796 Confirmed for down-syndrome.

20 hours later 4395040 Anonymous
>>4394716 >>4394735 >either American A, American B or American C

20 hours later 4395052 Anonymous
>>4395040 Who are your favorite authors, anon?

20 hours later 4395093 Anonymous
>>4394166 McCarthy tends to glide along on style, especially with The Road. Also, he veers too close to genre fiction with his morbid fascination of the American West. Nobody ever won the Nobel for genre fiction.

20 hours later 4395113 Anonymous
>>4394122 Seconded. Umberto Eco, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Pynchon are all fine choices too.

25 hours later 4395824 Anonymous
>>4392796 Confirmed for troll.

26 hours later 4395873 Anonymous
>>4395093 >Nobody ever won the Nobel for genre fiction. In 2007, Doris Lessing was the first author with major works in the genre of Science Fiction to win the Nobel Prize of Literature. >Many critics dismissed her achievement.

26 hours later 4395910 Anonymous
Umberto Eco will be the only remembered living author.

26 hours later 4395912 Anonymous
>>4395910 "Remembered" meaning being taught in 2.5 thousand years because of the richness of subtextual meaning. He creates an encyclopedia of the world within his texts.

26 hours later 4395914 Anonymous
>>4392755 The best. Stop acting like a pretentious faggot.

26 hours later 4395922 Anonymous
>>4394141 I think you could argue that for a time, Rowling certainly was. I also think she's a pretty damn good writer, as well. So maybe my opinion doesn't count.

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