I'm a big nerd and I've read a lot of books of all different kinds, and I'm an English teacher.
Tell me what you like or what you're looking for and I'll recommend something I think is good
Also, fun history fact, this comm used to be called c/books until I started posting poetry on main every day in protest of there not being a literature comm. Direct action gets the goods comrades
Ooh these are some good ones, but I'll leave aside the poetry because I'm much more a prose guy
The first thing that comes to mind is to combine your love of modernism and of outsiders with gigantic emotions and recommend some D.H. Lawrence like Sons and lovers or Women in Love
I'd also recommend They by Kay Dick. This one blew my face off when I read it recently.
Maybe If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino
Maybe Rent Boy by Gary Indiana
Maybe Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Maybe Babel by R.F. Kuang
Idk if any of these have everything you're looking for, maybe there's something here you could vibe with
Also I played And Those We Love Alive by Porpentine a while back and loved it btw
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Rent Boy
Piranesi
Babel
Wow, thanks! I've never even heard of a number of those, so I'll definitely have to check them out.
First mention of Gary Indiana I've seen on this site, or indeed most of the web. Absolutely love him; Resentment is such a perfect encapsulation of the particularly American derangements of modernity. Lives rent free in my head.
Just read Three Month Fever and it was great. Can't believe I only heard of this guy relatively recently
His interview in the Paris Review is fantastic, that's how I leanrsd about him. I'll see if I can find a copy.
OK I made a PDF of it since archive.is didn't work: https://file.io/GulgFAOj7NiW (actual URL is https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7852/the-art-of-fiction-no-250-gary-indiana)
Thanks! I'm going to check this out