Your "golden age" also had an overwhelming volume of crap that no one cares about that got published then too. The idea that nothing good gets published now is older than you think. In the 1700s people would say the same thing citing no one has published anything great since the Greeks and Romans. Amazing art is always being produced in all genres, at all times. You may not ever find it but it is out there, somewhere. It is getting harder to find amazing art now because of the volume of humanity's creative output has been going up exponentially with industrialization (for various symptomatic reasons).
Try and find something new. Don't wait for someone else to tell you what you should read because they said it was great. Find your own great works.
In Orlando, there is a recurring character throughout the ages, a poet which is always complaining that nothing of value is created nowadays. In the seventeenth century nothing of value have been written since antiquity, in the eighteenth century nothing of value have been written since Shakespeare and so on.
Try and find something new. Don't wait for someone else to tell you what you should read because they said it was great. Find your own great works.