Hey /lit/
What are some blogs or online publications you turn to for up-to-date information on the world of literature online?
Just beginning to delve into lit and wondering if there is a sense of "pulse" online for the lit communities abroad (beyond you fags of course).
>>7495618
i just wait until a few decades go by and let the critics tell me what to read.
They're all bourgeois trash
RIP HTMLGIANT :'(
How did 9/11 affect literature?
gr8 b8 m8 i r8 9/11
>>7495402
If it accomplished anything, it made all the art a far more interesting study for future generations. Scratch that, it made everything in the time period a far more interesting study for future generations.
And that's all I have to say about that.
9/11 revived the Western future. From 1992-2000, the Western future died completely, replaced with stately neoliberal efficiency and effectiveness and the all-consuming feeling that the world is going to end essentially in perfection very, very soon (on a historical scale). The realization that thousands of countrymen could be slaughtered in an instant made the entire West (at least the part that matters, the U.S. and NATO) reconsider its belief that the end was near. There was still a conflict to address. Old enemies hadn't forgotten what we'd done to them before.
Before...
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I have never hated a book more. The writing is so fucking bad. I can't stop cringing.
kys mm
i see the reddit shitposts are in full effect
>What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?
>her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependance: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising, and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waining:
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Is Yeats a good place to start with poetry?
The Iliad is the only place to start with poetry.
>>7495024
Some Yeats is, if you're familiar with or prepared to sketch over the run-up to the 1916 rising. September 1913 is beautiful regardless, and accessible IF you grok the context. Other stuff, eg Sailing To Byzantium, is quite beautiful but requires more involved familiarity than a wiki page. The Second Coming is heavily dependent on knowing exactly when it was written and understanding the geopolitical situation at the time (there is some bonus to be got from appreciating Yeats' own perspective on that...
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>>7495029
>not the epic of gilgamesh
I just started reading Story of O.
Am I wrong, or is it way more boring and gross than it is sexy or arousing?
>>7494857
Was it seriously on Oprah's reading club? I wasn't aware
Sex is absolutely disgusting.
So no, you're right.
>>7494845
I fapped to the movie.
Has anyone read this book? I am a quarter of the way through and I can not reconcile what is written other then the fact that his stories must be complete bullshit
>>7494668
Yes. It was a mediocre piece of fiction/pseudo self-help (I think).
>>7494668
Passable portrait of a profoundly damaged narcissist and a painfully gauche young man.
Hilariously misconstrued as a guide.
Emergency! was good.
What does /lit/ think about this book? I'm reading it and it's pretty decent.
>>7494640
I've read during college. It's well written.
>>7494640
Adler is great. He's written a book on Aristotle I might read this weekend. It's going to help me with a seminar.
>>7494675
Aristotle for everybody? Why does it sound unsafe to me?
This doesn't look good. Like at all
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He did As I Lay Dying already, pretty mediocre from what I've read. No point in adapting Faulkner anyway
franco doing his daniel day lewis bid
meh
>>7494564
its that annoying guy
almost as bad as eisenberg
Is it good?
The movie has some good reviews.
nah, just watch the movie. There are better books to give your time to.
What's up, /lit/?
Join us: we are philistines @ /4chanlit
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-Anything tasteful really!
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(if we catch you having fun,
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>>7494391
Well, we do love reddit!
>>7494386
Is there any literature that deals with nofap?
I'm sure there is some that touches the subject allegorically.
asceticism is gay bro
>>7494052
No, because anyone intelligent enough to have the capability to write a book realizes that nofap is retarded bullshit right away.
the kreutzer sonata
nietzsche
>got a cheap biography about Lovecraft
>his mom coddled him, was massively anxious about his well-being, and dressed him as a girl until he was 6, when he rebelled and she cried bitter tears as his golden locks were shaved
holy fuck, no wonder this guy was an autistic sperg. He stood no chance at being normal.
stories about authors thread?
I hate how he is being demonized so hard, recently, because his works contained some offensive words in it... Our society is fucking cancerous.
>>7493729
nah man he rebelled. he was cool
>>7493729
>hating on based Lovecraft
Kill yourself.
Been on /Lit/ for about six weeks now. I'm confused does /Lit/ read for enjoyment or to better themselves. Discuss.
>>7492953
Maybe it's time you stop coming to /lit/
>>7492965
No it is my favorite board.
Bettering myself is enjoyable
Rowling just tweeted this.
It's over, mates. Black Hermione is now canon.
So? Big woop some character from a shit book can be read as brown skinned. Stop shitting up the board with this nonsense.
>>7492261
And no one gave a fuck, ever.
She is, and always will be, Emma Watson.
Take it to r/books
Why don't you already consider Alamut a God-Tier book?
Sorry, I don't read books written by vampires.
>>7492162
what the...
>>7492162
Fuck, vampires have been making books now?
Dammit.
Bastards trying to take my blood AND my hobby?