http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/a-premature-attempt-at-the-21st-century-literary-canon.html

Now look at this list of the best novels of the 20th century. Compare Gone Girl to Ulysses, The Sound and the Fury, Pale Fire, and Darkness at Noon. It is hard not to conclude that that literary novels are dead and/or our culture is in a precipitous decline.

http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824843)

lol at the rest, especially this gem:

The Sluts, by Dennis Cooper (January 13, 2005)

Once upon a time, in the prelude to the plague years, gay male desire invented its most mesmeric and unbearable object: the twink. Blond, white, underweight, and user-friendly, he was a plastic icon of inverted, Aryan masculinity. As AIDS destroyed a population, as the internet quickened and anarchized our pornographies, the twink took off. Dennis Cooper hit this crepuscular intersection of web and death with effortless genius. A series of online rent-boy reviews describe the discovery, torture, and maybe murder of a barely-legal, no-limits hustler named Brad. Call it the twink cri de coeur — all surface, and so, perversely impenetrable. It is a dangerous fantasia, slipping so easily into the mouths and minds of homophobes. But go ahead, let them taste it. They want it as much as anyone. —David Velasco

OH what a canonical work of art!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824872)

he's my favorite active author, copped the Nobel a year ago.

The Remains of the Day is also excellent. His newest one, The Buried Giant was weird as fuck (like the style and content were just so far removed from his other stuff), but I still enjoyed it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824903)

and yes, the NLMG book was much better than the movie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824928)

The Road is even worse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828398)

Netherland

Galveston

Elementary Particles

those are up there but there's a shit ton i forget

and mentioned in that list, The Sense Of An Ending is really fantastic and stuck with me for a long time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826288)

his book of short stories, between here and the yellow sea, is also amazing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826418)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1439166641/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=&sr=

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827000)

Dark Star by Alan Furst

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828303)

xo is too political and i contribute to the problem, but i wonder if libs destroyed contemporary literature.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824940)

It was listed before drumpf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826456)

reading philosophy, though, is taxing in a different way

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827040)

1) We're drawing from the first 18 years - less than 20% the timeframe

2) It's hard to tell what stands the test of time when time hasn't really past yet.

3) I wonder if how easy people's lives are now have a negative impact on literature. Lots of great 20th century authors were WW1 / WW2 survivors / veterans, lives through great depression, etc. , knew more people who died younger or in some of these wars or to sickness or disease, etc. I wonder what kind of impact that has.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827071)

"How are we to write the Russian novel in America as long as life goes so unterribly?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827080)

To your point, I would say the majority of literary fiction comes from graduates of MFA programs that have led fairly uninteresting lives. It would be 180 if we got more novels from people with actually interesting experiences (astronaut, Navy SEAL, CIA/FBI agent, pro athlete, ER doctor). But that times has past.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827291)

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3000005&mc=3&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827293)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828372)

Anyone who writes like this is unqualified to judge writing. What utter nonsense.

Also, The Last Samurai isn't a book of the 21st century. It was written and published in the 20th.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36835067)