Contemporary Fiction

[Ya Sam]

Well, let's put it this way: a potential discovery of 'some furture 
immortal' is one of the reasons I'm reading contemporary lit. But I do enjoy 
it if the writer isn't that great, yeah. I'm not a monomaniac!
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>You are certainly correct in sticking with contemporary literary  fiction. 
>However it would be a mistake to think that the only reason  for doing so 
>is the chance of happening upon some future immortal.  Even if the author 
>of the book you've just read isn't  destined to  reach that particular 
>promised shore, he or she may nevertheless be a  talented, imaginative, 
>inventive writer it would be a shame to have  missed.  In the past two 
>weeks I've read the latest  (in one case  only) novels of Michael Tolkin, 
>Marisha Pessl,  and Janna Levin.  All  talented, inventive, imaginative, 
>writers regardless of their  potential for greatness. In my opinion people 
>who are not reading a  fair amount of contemporary serious fiction are 
>missing a  lot,
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>By the way including Pynchon in with Proust, Joyce and Mann is not  doing 
>him a favor. The jury is still out and will continue  to be for  years. At 
>the very least wait until he's dead.
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