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>> No.23284021

>>23283999
My favorite authors are all concentrated between 1820 and 1920ish. I don't really understand what it is about this period that produced so much kino

>> No.23284061

>>23283999
I never read any work of any alive authors and I would never

>> No.23284065

>>23283999
>push me to the edge

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>>23283999
My favorite authors are underage.

>> No.23284115

>>23283999
You're living on the shoulders of dead authors

>> No.23284116

Alasdair McIntyre is 95
Don DeLillo is 87
Thomas Pynchon is 86
Joyce Carol Oates is 85
J. M. Coetzee is 84
Antonio Lobo Antunes is 81
Peter Carey is 80
Paul Auster is 77
Enrique Vila-Matas is 76
Ian McEwan is 75
Haruki Murakami is 75
Kazuo Ishiguro is 69
Michel Houellebecq is 68

>> No.23284134

>>23283999
DFW isn't dead ?

>> No.23284161
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>>23284116
I first thought it was their IQ - being half-illiterate is one hell of a ride.

>> No.23284181

Cormac
Denis Johnson
Harry Crews
William Gay
Larry Brown

They’re dropping like flies, /lit/bros
But even when Pynch and Delillo go, I still will never read a living woman

>> No.23284188

>>23284181
Kek

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>>23283999
My favorite author(and possibly yours(soon)) is inside my ballsack.

>> No.23284257

>>23283999
I had a really funny moment the other day, when I looked up the author of some book I read and was surprised to find that they are still alive, because for a split second I genuinely forgot that that was even possible, since I'm so used to reading stuff by dead people.

>> No.23284270

>>23284116
Mario Vargas Llosa is 88
Ismail Kadare is 88
Julian Barnes is 78

>> No.23284272

>>23284257
>was surprised to find that they are still alive
you read trannies?

>> No.23284275

>>23284201
he died in 1850 bro

>> No.23284282

>>23284272
Nah, I just like to arbitrarily use the neutral form from time to time, especially if the word I'm referring to (author) has ambiguous gender.
You're giving this more thought than I did

>> No.23284286

>>23284275
lol

>> No.23284315

>>23284116
Mid central? Mid central

>> No.23285168

Isn't that nice, though? They will forever stay in the past, never to be tainted by today's world. Imagine finding out that your favorite brilliant author participates in stupid Twitter discourse.

>> No.23285597

>>23283999
Probably for the best frog.

>> No.23287094

>>23283999
And so shall you be, in the fullness of time. Death comes for all men. At least their works have outlived them; yours almost certainly won’t outlive you.

>> No.23287874

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e6a7SW8wZA