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A deeper dive beneath the surface of one of the richest bodies of work in modern fiction.
With his third novel, Bret Easton Ellis renders a profoundly disturbing depiction of mid-eighties LA as the “moral badlands” of America.
There is no catalog in modern literature more daunting than that of Joyce Carol Oates. Start here.
Consider this a eulogy. A eulogy in advance, actually, to the southern gothic school of literature.
The sort of off-kilter Americana you might expect from a name like Vonnegut or Pynchon, but with a voice that’s all its own.
Gritty realism from one of the best to to do it, the king of the anti-romantics: Raymond Carver.
Read Chuck Klosterman’s essential in the genre that has since been dubbed “small-town quirkiana” before the bandwagon arrives.
