This is the moment for which I was born. My chaotic opinion is that Knausgaard's My Struggle series has the biggest Fleet Foxes energy in the game in that it is all rain, wax coats, camping, mountains, and subverted queer pathos. https://twitter.com/nucosi/status/1310240301324398593

Knausgaard and Robin Pecknold are the same person re: making unintentionally homosexual art, and I stand by this thesis.

Elizabeth Taylor's A VIEW OF THE HARBOUR also has big Fleet Foxes energy. It seems like an odd suggestion, but just try me on it.

Maile Meloy's excellent collection BOTH WAYS IS THE ONLY WAY I WANT IT has enormous Fleet Foxes energy.

Mary Lavin's short stories also have big Fleet Foxes energy. Colin Barrett's YOUNG SKINS has MAJOR Fleet Foxes energy.

Elizabeth Bishop's poetry (I recommend the collected) is MAJOR Fleet Foxes vibes--it has all of the obvious things (dreary weather, boats, nature, coats, etc), but also the sensibility is very Fleet Foxes. Lucid style but opaque and self-referential.

But also: Borges has major Fleet Foxes energy. Bernhard is in there. Jenny Erpenbeck. Lowell. Calvino. Tove Jansson. Yasunari Kawabata, but specifically SNOW COUNTRY.