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Anonymous07/28/26, 09:40No.25428619
ITT writers only Americans care about
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Anon07/28/26, 10:03No.25428637
I refuse to believe anyone outside of America cares for Steinbeck.
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Anon07/28/26, 12:37No.25428840
Unfortunately his seven dreams series will be limited to dream only.
He's recently clarified that he will not be finishing them, he has cancer, and is dying.
I like his writing. It's unapologetic, kind of indulgent but very good nonetheless.
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Anon07/28/26, 13:30No.25428925
Of Mice and Men was pretty fun. I am also a bong who studied it in school. It was the only book that the black kids enjoyed learning about, even if the teacher did say nigger once or twice.
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Anon07/28/26, 13:56No.25428962
I’m not sure if even Americans care about Vollmann. He is arguably the most European of American writers—something that, in turn, isn’t understood in the US.
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Anon07/28/26, 13:56No.25428965
This guy sucks l o lSad to see all the steinbashing in this thread though, Of Mice and Men is pretty good, and has some nice intertextuality with Robbie Burns' To A Mouse.We seem to only cover 3 works of American literature in the UK: Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockonbird, and The Great Gatsby. I think it's a shame we rarely cover any work from Faulkner, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Alan Poe or Hemingway.I also got to cover The Road for my A Levels because my teacher was based and wrote his PhD on Cormac McCarthy.>t. Britbong
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Anon07/28/26, 13:57No.25428969
I stood upon the hills, when heaven's wide arch
Was glorious with the sun's returning march,
And woods were brightened, and soft gales
Went forth to kiss the sun-clad vales.
The clouds were far beneath me; bathed in light,
They gathered midway round the wooded height,
And, in their fading glory, shone
Like hosts in battle overthrown.
As many a pinnacle, with shifting glance.
Through the gray mist thrust up its shattered lance,
And rocking on the cliff was left
The dark pine blasted, bare, and cleft.
The veil of cloud was lifted, and below
Glowed the rich valley, and the river's flow
Was darkened by the forest's shade,
Or glistened in the white cascade;
Where upward, in the mellow blush of day,
The noisy bittern wheeled his spiral way.I heard the distant waters dash,
I saw the current whirl and flash,
And richly, by the blue lake's silver beach,
The woods were bending with a silent reach.
Then o'er the vale, with gentle swell,
The music of the village bell
Came sweetly to the echo-giving hills;
And the wild horn, whose voice the woodland fills,
Was ringing to the merry shout,
That faint and far the glen sent out,
Where, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke,
Through thick-leaved branches, from the dingle broke.If thou art worn and hard beset
With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget,
If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,
Go to the woods and hills! No tears
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
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Anon07/28/26, 14:07No.25428986
Ok, so if the usual meme’d american writers suck and irrelevant, who should I read then?
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Anon07/28/26, 14:50No.25429070
Is Walt Whitman worth reading? He seems to get referenced a lot in US media but nobody seems to read him outside America which is usually a telltale sign.
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Anon07/28/26, 14:56No.25429082
Never really heard of Lew Wallace outside of the US.
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Anon07/28/26, 15:01No.25429096
Americans live in a bubble. And larping online 3rd-worlders just parrot shit, and thinks McCarthy is the greatest writer ever without ever reading any of his stuff.
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Anon07/28/26, 15:51No.25429186
no one cares about to kill a mockingbird lets be honest
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Anon07/28/26, 15:53No.25429189
>ask my literary siblings and parents
>no one know who he his nor IJ
fell for the meme, they all have lit degrees im a stemmy
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Anon07/28/26, 16:55No.25429320
Funny that you can name and argue about American authors only Americans care about when literally every other country is full of authors absolutely no one cares about or can even name. Non-Americans coping and seething per usual
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Anon07/28/26, 17:32No.25429401
Pynchon is seen as something of a weird american curiosity and Gaddis is very little talked about, if at all. Delillo is only slightly better in that regard. DFW is roughly in the same tier as Pynchon, Infinite Jest recently got a translation but he is hardly the target of much attention.The pre-war Americans fare rather well, however. Not all of them, though, Henry James is quite unpopular. People don't really know what to make of Robinson Jeffers and Wallace Stevens.I never heard anyone talk about Vollmann.
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Anon07/28/26, 18:04No.25429494
DFW
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Anon07/28/26, 19:06No.25429694
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Benjamin Franklin
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Anon07/28/26, 20:03No.25429856
In terms of worldwide popularity, stephen king must be no. 1 american writer, right? Because of the movies.
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Anon07/29/26, 03:21No.25430985
>shallow attempt to be relevant by pretending to be trans
worst hack shan't be reading
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Anon07/29/26, 03:22No.25430989
>itt: browns
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Anon07/29/26, 07:30No.25431311
Abraham Lincoln.
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Anon07/29/26, 08:24No.25431351
He takes being pathetic to the limit. This is anti-American ethos. Why does he do it?
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Anon07/30/26, 16:05No.25434003
As a non American, I quite like American literature, but Salinger is probably the last American writer that had a real impact outside of America.