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BREAKING NEWS: Cormac McCarthy, a preeminent voice in American literature over the better part of the past half-century, died today at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., his publisher, Knopf, confirmed. He was 89. Full obit to follow.
— Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) June 13, 2023
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Are there any other good living American writers? Please give recs
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WHITNEY RYAN!
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A good read, but it is non-fiction
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What you don't like an endless stream of autobiographies written by women who were only published because they had a foreign sounding name?
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I asked for good writers, not great ones
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Brett Easton Ellis is still kicking
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He and the Tasting History guy, the last of the sane gays.
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Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo are the last of the old guard. Now, given how the publishing industry gatekeeps new writers and how the media refuses to cover books that don't focus on and take certain positions regarding social justice and identity politics, it is doubtful we will see more titans of this nature.
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Thomas Pynchon is still alive??!!
I like a lot of DeLillo's older stuff but I read one of his more recent efforts and it fell flat for me
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pretty much no unfortunately
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Cobalt Red was good. IDK if that guys american but he went to Africa to investigate Cobalt mining.
I've been reading Jon Ronson books, he's not like a "good writer" like Hemingway or whatever.
But he would probably appeal to people on this site because he writes about dumb shit (internet shaming campaigns, ICP, he also was the one who wrote The Men Who Stare at Goats.)
*also as I mentioned, Cormac did release two books in the last few years. The Passenger and Stella Maris. They're companion novels.
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I'll check em out, thanks! The mining stuff sounds interesting
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Yeah, I would recommend it. It's a pretty easy read and good.
Cobalt is used for Batteries for Smart Phones and Electric cars so there's like a huge rush to get it by the West and the Chinese.
The largest reserves of it are in Africa (because of course they are) so both east and west are competing to extract it. And they're running like slave mines to get it.
The guy goes in and tries to investigate like the mines and the supply chain, how it all works. African nonsense ensues.
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Delicious tacos is pretty bussin
Long live the ccp
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Really neighbor
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Vollmann is probably the only non-ancient great American writer currently.
George Saunders is decent.
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I will check it out! Any books in particular?
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Start with Europe Central for Vollmann and Tenth of December for Saunders.
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Bernard Cornwell
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What kind of stuff does he put out?
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Top tier historical fiction: Last Kingdom, Sharpe
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Rock 'n roll, sounds good
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Laird Barron
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Is his stuff any good? I read The Croning and hated it.
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His short stories are better
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I'll give them a try in that case.
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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All is great. Swift to Chase is my favorite collection but a lot of people criticize it for being overly confusing, and a lot of stories get really bizarre towards their ends, ymmv.
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Either, I usually stick to a ratio of 1/3 nonfiction and 2/3 fiction. Will read anything, but preferably good
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