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Doesnt seem like David Foster Wallace is going to maek it
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:02 AM Author: Canary friendly grandma electric furnace I don't think he's being read much anymore and I don't think he makes it into the 2030s or 2040s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920447) |
Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:03 AM Author: fishy stage tank I’m not sure post-1960 literature “makes it” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920449) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:51 AM Author: Irradiated party of the first part (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920946) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:58 PM Author: Aggressive location (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47921313) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:04 AM Author: Pearl pontificating institution are there contemporaries of his that are going to "maek it"? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920450) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:05 AM Author: Canary friendly grandma electric furnace i think cormac mccarthy will make it. not a stylistic or generational contemporary, but wrote during same decades (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920453) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:07 AM Author: Pearl pontificating institution DFW needed a well-received "crying of lot 49" - something with a digestible length so that people could claim to be in on DFW without devoting a whole month to reading infinite jest/gravity's rainbow etc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920461) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:08 AM Author: fishy stage tank That was the one exception I thought of Maybe Wendell Berry too? |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:47 AM Author: Naked mind-boggling public bath What about Franzen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920926) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:51 AM Author: Irradiated party of the first part That guy sucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920950) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:09 PM Author: adventurous pervert I think he's overrated too I recently read the same-titled "The Boys" comic and while it was better than I was expecting it had the same overly acerbic/bitter/borderline nihilistic, optimism not allowed, Edge is Lord type attitude that I associate with both McCarthy and Gen X era media |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 1:08 PM Author: Canary friendly grandma electric furnace to me, there's a tremendous optimism in mccarthy.
its hard-earned optimism, tbh, coming up out of the guts and blood, but its optimism |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:09 PM Author: passionate bonkers roommate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47921051) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:08 AM Author: adventurous pervert Popularity of this or that instance of style/era/period in liberal arts is cyclical. We're probably going to see another Hemingway/Grey/Lost Generation hype period again before long, albeit in a much smaller circle than it would've been in ~2009 due to widespread illiteracy/functional non-engagement with the arts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920463) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:08 AM Author: painfully honest casino indirect expression i tried to read IJ. it just seemed like pretentious faggotry. and i read ulysses 5-6 times. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920466) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:38 AM Author: transparent milk corner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920869) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:35 AM Author: Slimy pozpig property I agree with this
his oeuvre is really just IJ (amost 3x as long as Moby Dick) and a series of very clever but throw-away articles for the Harpers/Atlantic set. There's little in between and really not even a second complete novel after IJ. those articles are perfect for a Norton's anthology but not conducive to "serious" study - which is my understanding of OP's point
also we're headed for a post-literate society and while that's really a separate point it does mean that fewer and fewer writers are going to make it, long term |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:39 AM Author: transparent milk corner Do men even write non-sci-fi non-fantasy fiction anymore? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920874) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:41 AM Author: Slimy pozpig property does anyone? everything is either sci-fi/fantasy/romance (same thing, basically) or "personal memoirs" - lightly fictionalized or not - about the specific navelgazing experience of growing up [demographic] in [location] (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920888) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:11 PM Author: poppy startled heaven sci-fi is still very readable and ive gone through 6 books recently that were quality (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47921064) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:19 PM Author: Irradiated party of the first part (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47921104) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:24 PM Author: transparent milk corner Yeah, likely because men are still writing it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47921132) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:39 AM Author: Internet-worthy piazza twinkling uncleanness none of us are - act accordingly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920875) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:40 AM Author: adventurous pervert We Will Become Totally Unhinged (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920882) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:44 AM Author: razzle-dazzle dull sweet tailpipe abode Novels are shit. People naturally remember song lyrics and rhymes, but they have to be taught to read and write. If you had to put something in writing it's because you didn't have the talent to make something people would remember. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47920905) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:07 PM Author: Naked mind-boggling public bath (homer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47921038) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:12 PM Author: adulterous hairraiser haunted graveyard for someone reason i thought this must have been an old thread from 06 or 07 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47921069) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:19 PM Author: Slimy pozpig property (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47921105) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:29 PM Author: Lemon death wish den Everybody Worships will be discussed in church small groups for eternity. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47921153) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:43 PM Author: Naked mind-boggling public bath (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47921226) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:59 PM Author: Aggressive location Novels are pretty dead. Total niche genre of entertainment nowadays, basically doesn’t even exist for normal dudes, mostly all geared toward fags and women (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2...id#47921322) |