Quote:In the 1940s, young people read William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pearl Buck and John Steinbeck. Are our current novelists turning out anything comparable?

i always wondered what it would be like to walk into a bookshop or whatever and pick up the latest 'rnst hemingway. homeboy (and the ilk you mentioned) was a living legend. we'd probably celebrate authors more if michael jordan didn't exist. imo, current literature has to age. and it probably won't very well. what authors that exist today will we care about fifty years from now? stephen king and a bunch of serial novelists. nora roberts. maybe we can sneak in a vonnegut but it's mostly not memorable. imo. at least we can claim david foster wallace