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How's my stack, /lit/?
gay
>>8004764
This might as well be my stack. I'm teaching a course on the beats in the fall. check out gregory corso and philip walen if you like those
and gary snyder (japhy ryder in dharma bums) wrote a book of nature-buddhist poetry called Mountains and Rivers Without End that is superb
How is mine?
>inb4 meme language
Just finished The Name of the Rose and wondered if anybody wanted to stop cyclically navel gazing over Turgenev, Pynchon and DFW and have a discussion on the late great Umberto Eco.
you start
>>8004735
I love his work.
And the Apostilles to pic related are an amazing piece of literature insight.
>>8004735
italian dan brown
Should an author talk frankly about his work in interviews / reflections?
nice james ferraro pic
theres a subtle pissy/nihilist mood in all of james ferarros talks that tells me he aint liking how things are rn
bu
Who deserved it, but wasn't awarded for idiotic reasons? Who do you think deserves it in general?
John Green
>>8004714
C'mon it's a thread up there.
Deserved but didn't get:
Joyce
Proust
Woolf
Borges
Tolstoy
Deserves it now:
Pynchon
DeLillo
Ashbery
Rushdie
Roth
Others I'm forgetting
I thought this was supposed to be difficult?
nice pussy. oh, and the cat aint bad either
>>8004636
he aight
>>8004646
>5 Canadian dollars
You should convert that into something that's more stable long term.like milk
I am writing a book alongside another author. It is about an illegal vegetable farm in 2070 after a global food shortage. The culture of real food is illegalized in most of the world and all food is replaced with synthetic food.
We are trying to make this book as believable as possible, so what we need are reading recomendations and advice on botany and famine
Step one: don't write it about that, unless it's a satire or something. The premise sounds dumb and uninteresting.
Step two: try to come up with a different premise. Before you do that, it might be good to think about what you want the overall meaning/theme of the piece to be, then come up with the premise from that.
Step three: don't assume that just because you have another author working on it, it's going to work out great. If you notice something awkward/bad, don't hope that they'll fix it for you in revision. Do your best.
KJV
Why is real food illegal? What caused the original famine? How does the farm stay undetected? What would the punishment be if they were caught? Is this the only illegal farm or do they know others?
What happened to farmers markets :(
All of these questions should prob. make it in so it's believed, cant think of anything else
What should I expect from pic related?
You should expect to read the book with as few preconceptions as possible and form your own fucking opinion, what the fuck is wrong with you people
Rambling annoying guy
Why would you want people putting opinions in your head before you read? What should you expect? Nothing. Just fucking read it, it's like 80 pages long.
Hey guys, I saw DFW's undergraduate thesis in philosophy posted here yesterday, so I thought you guys would appreciate a couple screenshots of excerpts from it. You should read it, it's not much different form his novels tee bee eytch
>not caring about the compositional interaction of temporal and modal operators
you're not a fucking pleb are you? This is part of the full DFW experience
This one has a watermark on it
>>8004468
This just doesnt make sense to me. What is it?
Reading this was daunting but I consider myself a DFW fanboy for life and if I was going to 100% his oeuvre, I had to do it. I can't claim that I understood it completely, but I got through it and there (cool robot voice) Achievement Unlocked.
He was right about everything.
Irony erodes the soul.
I don't go one day without running into a truth that he already expressed.
could anyone explain to me what he thought the alternative was?
>>8004386
>Irony erodes the soul.
What does this mean?
Why are you guys so obsessed with this bandana-toting sperglord?
Recommend me books with heavy atmosphere, so heavy it feels like a Tarkovsky movie
>>8004176
samuel beckett novels are kind of like nostalghia
>>8004191
yeah i've heard people say that. Which ones do you recommend?
>>8004200
i've only read molloy and malone dies. need to get to the unnamable soon.
i think both nostalghia and those books are so minimal that they're practically a rorschach test for the reader. you'll get a lot out of just considering what sticks out to you.
Has any artist ever denounced his own work? Like in interviews or in his own writing saying he failed on a certain project? just wondering
Tolstoy, after he became a Christian Anarchist or whatever
Kafka wanted all his shit burned. His brother published it.
>>8003927
That's probably just because it wasn't finished yet,
![QUIZ_Les-titres-des-romans-de-Louis-Ferdinand-Celine_8898[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/IsNkhwi.jpg "QUIZ_Les-titres-des-romans-de-Louis-Ferdinand-Celine_8898[1].jpg")
How come /lit/ doesn't meme Celine anymore?
because his "master-piece" though well written is nothing but a guy whining for 400 pages
>>8003898
Shut up
>>8003898
Not like that's different from half the shit posted here
My brother just died. any books to help
Sorry for your loss.
>>8003865
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
The Turner Diaries
redpill me on this man
>>8003807
>redpill
He's a lizard Jew who is trying to breed out whiteness by emasculating the white man and enslaving us all.
Deus vult
>>8003815
Dear Diary, to trigger a libcuck one must use pol vocabulary.
>>8003833
>le /pol/ bogeyman
/pol/ is always right
*tips fedora*
>>8003788
i remember deciphering the stupid code that ran across the bottom of the book. it was just an ad for the second book. Now I know how Ralphie felt when he got the secret decoder ring in A Christmas Story.
Artemis Fowl is good for what it is (i.e. a YA novel)
>>8003811
"YA"?
Yingling Adonnous?
