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		bolangi 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What does it mean to “write like you talk”? Kurt Vonnegut and Charles Bukowski are good examples.

ProllyInfamous 17 days ago [–]

And of course Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury) and McCarthy (Suttree).

I'm not a big fan of William (he definitely has place in history), but Cormac is best fiction author alive in my lifetime (Steinbeck is best of 20th Century).

The above are all my opinions.

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