Normally when I see this question asked the usual pomo heavyweights are always mentioned (Pynchon, Gaddis, Delillo, etc.) and I find those answers a bit disappointing. I want toget recommandations of authors who are still writing, i.e. they have releases from the last five years minimum. Vollmann obviously is very unique, so I don't mean writers who emulate all the intricacies of his smile, but I'm struggling to find writers who are similarly ambitious in their disciplines, and who weave journalistic and fictive techniques together so well.
by sackhurtin