Can anyone recommend some genuinely great contemporary literature? The most recently written work I can abide (that I've found) is Sebald.
>>25324958Sebald is the hack version of Murnane
>>25324958Blood Meridian
>Sebald>Contemporary
marley & me
>>25324979Sebald is contemporary.
>>25324994Because OP is a retard and using contemporary as synonymous with modern literature. Anything after 1945 is contemporary and this fucking retard only could “abide” (writes like a fag) by is Sebald? Yeah, he doesn’t understand the term contemporary
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson but even that is already 30 years old, can't think of much since then aside form Corncob
Life of Pi is good but then again I read it when I was twelve.
>>25325011>anything after 1945 is contemporary Shut up dude. No.
>>25324958Been a bit since I picked up something genuinely new that wasn't hyper-local, but there were a few I read last year or before that I'd recommend:>Brat by Gabriel Smithwhat seems initially like standard "alt-lit" turns into something more psychological and metafictional; was slow to start but impressed me going on from a particular turning point>Nobber by Oisin Faganhistorical fiction set during the black death, with various perspectives coming together as it progresses>My Stupid Intentions by Barnardo Zannonia quasi-fable on the irreversibility of knowledgeCurrently I'm reading Middle C by Gass, but Gass is dead and I wouldn't really count him as contemporary, but 2013 is newer than any of Sebald's fiction. Been a fan of Gass' fiction for a few years now.>>25325019Read a whole bunch of Denis Johnson lately and enjoyed it all very much. Started out with Train Dreams, which is one of his latest works, but yeah, not exactly contemporary.
contemporary generally means the person is still alive and working... but it can also mean someone around your age and or pedigree. which one do you mean OP?
>>25324958>genuinely greatIf you've never read Fosse, now's the time. I also really, really liked Milkman by Anna Burns -- 18yo girl growing up in Belfast during the Troubles begins a "relationship" with a paramilitary, forcing her to tightrope between terrorist groups to stay alive>>25325412Can second the Smith and Fagan recommendations
To add a little more to the thread, I haven't read these but got the recs here:>Young Skins by Colin Barrett>Kala by Colin WalshI've read "Let's Go Kill Ourselves" by Barrett, and it's goodhttps://stingingfly.org/2014/07/24/lets-go-kill/ >>25325420Anything else by Fagan you'd recommend? Been meaning to read more of him since Nobber but haven't gotten around to it.I think Smith is working on another novel but most of the output I've seen from him since Brat has been oddball musings about LLMs on Twitter, and this thing on Substack about a fictional ghostwriting gig that I haven't been able to bring myself to read. Sorta gives me the impression he's going nuts, but I was a big fan of Brat and he was cool the brief times I ran into him on here so I'm holding out for another good work from him.
>>25324958The Book of Marlon
>>25325450that book by barrett is really good
>>25325114>>25325114You legit have down's syndrome, you profoundly unread retard. Kill yourself, homosexual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_literature
>>25325450Haven't read any more Fagan than you, I'm afraid. Smith seems like an interesting guy and I hope he doesn't develop LLM psychosis.>stinging flyWill always have a soft spot for this magazine, they introduced me to Claire Louise-Bennett
rejection by tony tulathimutte4 short stories that are so precise to how gen z is like today. really absurd and funny
>>25328016Great book, but he pussied out at the end>Wowzas, that guy's fucking crazy rite? Guys he's like totally nuts and shit right? That's a crazy character right? He's so totally insane and shit right guys? Good thing that's a character in a book of fiction right? You guys notice how I'm saying that's not me in the book right? You see that right? Right?would've been much better to not do that limpwristed cowardly maneuver and just trust the reader
