Contemporary Fiction

[James Kyllo]

On 9/13/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>.  What's
> worth the time/effort?  At least before Nov. 21st ...

either mentioned by you or published this century, imo:

Gaddis - Everything
Vollman - You Bright and Risen Angels, Fathers and Crows, The Royal Family
Lethem - Fortress of Solitude
Mitchell - Cloud Atlas, Number 9 Dream, Cloudwritten
Vargas Llosa - Feast of the Goat (and much more earlier work)
Sebald - Austerlitz
Eugenides - Middlesex
Bachelder - Bear v Shark, U.S.
Winton - Dirt Music
Powers - Plowing the Dark
Kunzru - The Impressionist

Arthur Nersesian is worth a look.  Back into the 90s, so is Lawrence Norfolk.

Sedaris is enjoyable but light, Foer lighter.  I liked Eggars' big one
but it would be easy to be so annoyed by his manner as to stop early.


best

James


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