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Is there a bigger meme than "reading for prose"?
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Is there a bigger meme than "reading for prose"?
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Fuck you for making another shit thread on lit you cunt
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>>7479726
>insinuating
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pic related 2bh
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>>7479766
It sure is getting Reddit in here.

Reddit exclusively reads for prose, tbqh
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>>7479721
Yes there is, it's reading for "story".
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>>7479793
You mean "plot," you utter tool.
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>>7479721

Is there a definitive way to describe McCarthy and Faulkners prose? I always end up referring to it as being very candid but also very vivid. I want to find more prose like in Suttree.
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>>7479866
The term is "garbage"
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>>7479885

ebin
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>>7479866
>very candid but also very vivid
Canvid? Vidid?
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>>7479799
It's actually "reading poetry"
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>>7480574
>implying poetry isn't the pinnacle of literature
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>>7479866
monolithic is the word that comes to my mind. his description feels engraved in a stone tablet.
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>>7480580
>implying poetry in 2015 isn't all self-indulgent masturbatory shite
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>>7480622
>tfw this is true
What are some contemporary poets I can read, analyze, and then do the opposite of?
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