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Doesnt seem like David Foster Wallace is going to maek it

I don't think he's being read much anymore and I don't think...
irradiated lake national security agency
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I’m not sure post-1960 literature “makes it&rdqu...
aggressive laughsome toilet seat
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Bisexual queen of the night
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Magical Library Feces
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are there contemporaries of his that are going to "maek...
narrow-minded aqua university chad
  08/02/24
i think cormac mccarthy will make it. not a stylistic or gen...
irradiated lake national security agency
  08/02/24
DFW needed a well-received "crying of lot 49" - so...
narrow-minded aqua university chad
  08/02/24
That was the one exception I thought of Maybe Wendell Berry...
aggressive laughsome toilet seat
  08/02/24
What about Franzen
Bateful temple sound barrier
  08/02/24
That guy sucks
Bisexual queen of the night
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I think he's overrated too I recently read the same-titled ...
Racy friendly grandma stain
  08/02/24
to me, there's a tremendous optimism in mccarthy. its har...
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Popularity of this or that instance of style/era/period in l...
Racy friendly grandma stain
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i tried to read IJ. it just seemed like pretentious faggotry...
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Awkward translucent set
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I agree with this his oeuvre is really just IJ (amost 3x ...
saffron dingle berry orchestra pit
  08/02/24
Do men even write non-sci-fi non-fantasy fiction anymore?
Awkward translucent set
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does anyone? everything is either sci-fi/fantasy/romance (sa...
saffron dingle berry orchestra pit
  08/02/24
sci-fi is still very readable and ive gone through 6 books r...
Copper therapy
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Bisexual queen of the night
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Yeah, likely because men are still writing it.
Awkward translucent set
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none of us are - act accordingly
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We Will Become Totally Unhinged
Racy friendly grandma stain
  08/02/24
Novels are shit. People naturally remember song lyrics and r...
spectacular very tactful kitty
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(homer)
Bateful temple sound barrier
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for someone reason i thought this must have been an old thre...
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Novels are pretty dead. Total niche genre of entertainment n...
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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:02 AM
Author: irradiated lake national security agency

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=2Reputation#47920447)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:03 AM
Author: aggressive laughsome toilet seat

I’m not sure post-1960 literature “makes it”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47920449)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:51 AM
Author: Bisexual queen of the night



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47920946)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:58 PM
Author: Magical Library Feces



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47921313)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:04 AM
Author: narrow-minded aqua university chad

are there contemporaries of his that are going to "maek it"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47920450)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: irradiated lake national security agency

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=2Reputation#47920453)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:07 AM
Author: narrow-minded aqua university chad

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=2Reputation#47920461)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:08 AM
Author: aggressive laughsome toilet seat

That was the one exception I thought of

Maybe Wendell Berry too?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47920464)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:47 AM
Author: Bateful temple sound barrier

What about Franzen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47920926)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:51 AM
Author: Bisexual queen of the night

That guy sucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47920950)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:09 PM
Author: Racy friendly grandma stain

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47921048)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 1:08 PM
Author: irradiated lake national security agency

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47921359)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:09 PM
Author: Ungodly Athletic Conference Messiness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47921051)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:08 AM
Author: Racy friendly grandma stain

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=2Reputation#47920463)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 10:08 AM
Author: Sticky big-titted voyeur

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=2Reputation#47920466)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:38 AM
Author: Awkward translucent set



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47920869)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: saffron dingle berry orchestra pit

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47920853)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:39 AM
Author: Awkward translucent set

Do men even write non-sci-fi non-fantasy fiction anymore?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47920874)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:41 AM
Author: saffron dingle berry orchestra pit

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=2Reputation#47920888)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:11 PM
Author: Copper therapy

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=2Reputation#47921064)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:19 PM
Author: Bisexual queen of the night



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47921104)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:24 PM
Author: Awkward translucent set

Yeah, likely because men are still writing it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47921132)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:39 AM
Author: vivacious slimy black woman community account

none of us are - act accordingly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47920875)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:40 AM
Author: Racy friendly grandma stain

We Will Become Totally Unhinged

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47920882)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 11:44 AM
Author: spectacular very tactful kitty

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=2Reputation#47920905)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:07 PM
Author: Bateful temple sound barrier

(homer)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47921038)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:12 PM
Author: onyx sex offender background story

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=2Reputation#47921069)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:19 PM
Author: saffron dingle berry orchestra pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47921105)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:29 PM
Author: Sienna heady psychic school

Everybody Worships will be discussed in church small groups for eternity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47921153)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:43 PM
Author: Bateful temple sound barrier



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568624&forum_id=2Reputation#47921226)



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Date: August 2nd, 2024 12:59 PM
Author: Magical Library Feces

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=2Reputation#47921322)