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Not the same as favorite novelists or storytellers, but authors you'd read just for the enjoyment of their writing.
Four of my favorites: George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Wolfe, Salinger
>>7336754
Salinger's prose is probably his most obvious failing
>>7336754
Conrad is one of those guys that's too elusively unique to even imitate.
>>7337076
>Conrad
>unique
my sides, this is almost as cringeworthy as the ending to Heart of Darkness
How do people over the age of 14 enjoy this book? I thought I would reread it, and the imbuing of ideology is so lazy and transparent, I want to put it down forever
I love Orwell but that book is shit. Let's pretend he never wrote fiction.
>>7336759
I remember 1984 being better, but i'm scared to reread that also.
>>7336764
I lied, a little. 1984 is better as an adult.
The generation raised on Spongebob will soon begin producing great work. What does this mean?
Will references to the cartoon be equivalent to Homeric allusions? Is Plankton the new Menelaus?
Fuck yourself
>>7336560
No. Sponge bob is garbage for stoners and children.
>>>/reddit/
After really only reading the Stoics and Plato for philosophy, what can I expect from reading Nietzsche?
An interesting but weird fellow with a lot of original thoughts.
You'll most likely either love him or hate him.
You should at least read a quick "history of philosophy" type of book before tackling him, with Stoics and Plato there's A LOT of stuff that's gonna fly over your head.
>>7336468
I'm still going to try to tackle Nietzsche, but can you recommend me a good "history of philosophy" book?
writing a poem for school poetry slam any advice /lit/
just rant indignantly about the white man
>>7336393
have actually thought about it but seems like everyone else will be doing that
read some Agalloch lyrics then just shit something out in the same style
Management of a state is a matter for which men cannot be too intelligent.
Why is it that this sentence has two opposite meanings?
Every sentence has as much meaning as we can extract from it.
>>7336365
Thanks, but I'm looking for a more technical answer. Which words change meaning specifically? Is there a grammatical term for this inversion of meaning? It's not irony or sarcasm, so what is it?
>>7336376
I'm no expert, but I think is just a badly written sentence.
Any of you submitting to literary magazines? How long have you been trying for? Have you ever been accepted? How difficult would it be to get accepted into pic related?
General literary journal/magazine thread I guess.
The bar for entry is really low. If you're really smart, though, you'll just start your own outlet rather than submitting. The word itself, submission, doesn't that concern you?
>>7336340
If you want to be pedantic, offering any of your intellectual output to the outside world is a form of submission,
you're never going to get into tin house through the slush pile
the big literary journals are pretty much all agented
what's some academic literature that's as engaging and require as little background as this?
Methods of Logic by Willard van Orman Quine
>>7336245
Reminder that Chomsky constantly attacks other thinkers for not being scientific enough despite his most famous theory never ever being discovered or any evidence of it being found
>>7336258
you probably don't acknowledge anthropogenic global warming as a real phenomenon either
hi /lit/
if you were to recommend me a book based on the statement "i want to kill myself", what book would it be?
interpret the question and statement in whatever way you like
Daizai Osamu - Ningen Shikaku (usually translated as No Longer Human)
>>7336220
The Myth of Sisyphus to be honest (desu)
Ordinary people by Judith Guest
Any books that feel like the art of Zdzisław Beksiński?
>>7336080
I just noticed how similar these are to the environment in Dark/Demon Souls.
Dante's Inferno
>>7336080
bump- this art is fucking fantastic
Where can I learn how to read good poetry? From the basics to advanced?
>>7336028
Bump 4 interest, to be honest family, i like you all more than a friend
>>7336028
>>7336032
You don't, poetry is not something you can learn to read in isolation, your reading of it will be a a refracted mirror to the entire collection of your knowledge, understanding, experiences and your idea of all art.
You don't learn to read poetry, you just learn and then you read poetry.
>>7336050
You are saying that their aren't techniques to poetry? ok..
Let's talk about William Blake. Was he a saint? Just how unorthodox were his religious views? What was the greatest thing he wrote?
He was pretty much batshit insane.
If he was alive today he would be sharing "live life love" posters on pinterest. Run of the mill satanist/individualist/free love/"i'm a feminist" guy but with schizophrenia.
>>7335859
I don't know much about Blake, only that he promoted polyamory, but only with a single man and many female lovers.
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jun/12/omg-shakespeare-penguin-random-house-yolo-juliet-srsly-hamlet-textspeak
Why must it be this way /lit/? This makes me rage so hard.
>>7335806
This is old.
I primarily don't like that it's adding to the idea (along with all the no-fear editions) that Shakespeare in the original is too hard to read for students.
It's not unless you're a nigger.
Its a gimmicky book targeted toward pre-teens, it doesn't need to be taken so seriously
Spoken word poetry counts as Literature?
Spoken word poetry counts as Literature.
What are some of your anon's favorite writers who speak?
>pic related
Is that wil Wheaton
>>7335798
Do you know what reverse image search is?
That's Neil Hilborn
>>7335801
Lol wtf are you looking at that's clearly will wheaton
How do you guys get over things like writers block and lack of motivation?
Personal example: I love to read, but lately I can't even look at this book I've been reading after getting 200+ pages in. The thought of reading is mentally draining... Even though I love the book so far. I need help bros.
Heroic doses of psychedelics.
>>7335719
Terrence pls go
For writers block, I never have it. If I'm imagining a scene in my head then it naturally progresses, and I don't come up with new things or instigate change in what I'm imagining, it just logically flows, so I don't have this problem.
I also never have a problem with not wanting to read if I'm reading something by my own choice.
If you remain diligent, your focus will improve. I definitely didn't start out this way. It took about a year of devoting 3 hours a day without exception to reading before I could read straight through without...
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