u/ViceIsVerses

It is rare that Salter is ever mentioned on this sub and I wondered what the consensus is. To me, he is one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. I find his prose to be gorgeous and very moreish when reading. Richard Ford once declared that he “writes American sentences better than anyone”. He was a master novelist and was possibly even better at short stories.

I met the man at a reading a few years before he died and he blew me away with his sharpness and speed of thought. He was nearly 90 at the time and I feel privileged to have shake his hand. To me he is a quintessential American author, someone I would put up with Cormac McCarthy and Hemingway.

Anyway, opinions?