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Who's the DJ Khaled of Literature?
Published writer, Mindy Kaling.
>>7707273
I thought her official title was Face and Name on Published Book
>>7707288
Your thinking of Lena Dunham
>2016
>Not fluent in Latin
How do you guys even enjoy Ezra Pound or the philosophy of Cicero?
>>7707045
In translation, obviously.
Estis stultissimi, plebs.
>tfw the American educational system will never go back to the Classical model and have 4th graders doing recitations in Latin of the Aeneid
fuck the common core and fuck the way we "educate" kids nowadays,
Do people actually like Celine? I'd sooner read 50 Shades of Grey than another pile of pedantic smut passed off as literature by this ugly fucker. Seriously, fuck this guy; he sucks.
>>7707007
I respect your opinion.
>>7707079
thanks
Anyone read this? Really good book about a man who enters the world of neo-nazi skinheads, forms two bands and finally leaves after seven years.
Sounds intense. Does he talk about Fight Club and Boondock Saints? Or Rammstein and Skrilex? I got the Anarchist Bible at my dads house.
you should ask Jane (((Rosenthal)))
>>7707029
uh, no.
Lots of books published nowadays include this statement. Mostly YA, but it goes beyond that.
What are some GOOD books about slut shaming? I haven't read Houellebecq, but I think this is one of the themes of his books_
>>7706966
Titus Andronicus
The Scarlet Letter?
>>7706973
I'm going to read it right now.
>>7706976
I'll read it after the play.
Thanks. I have reading material for a few days.
Is there a list of things I need to read before I take this on?
All of it
Literally everything
Also become fluent in French, German, Arabic, and Old English
>>7706945
the entire western canon
goodnight, /lit/
Nice shit post, I hope you die in your sleep you worthless sack of shit.
>>7706906
Good night anon.
Sleep well.
Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies;
good night, good night.
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In that college town, everyone went out with at least a little alcohol in their system. I wasn’t an alcoholic, but drinking alcohol always helped me with being more confident and sociable. On weekend nights, I took a few shots from my vodka bottle and set out on walks around the town, desperately hoping that I would stumble across some opportunity to make friends. I often ended up sitting alone at some café, hoping girls would talk to me before I sobered up. No girl ever did. I then went back home to lie in my bed alone.
This was probably the case for a lot of literary giants. The guy is a fag and a whiner, but come on.
>>7706882
Wow, this new meme is epic because John Green isn't a particularly good writer. We need 50 threads of this up because it's so funny. Attributing quotes of opposing ideologies to John Green is the highest and most sophisticated form of humour.
Oh, I get it.
Dochenozzle/10
I'm 3000 words into a deconstruction of Captain Planet featuring Milo Yiannopoulos and #BlackLivesMatters. What do you think? Potential to be good? I'm writing it while drunk so I have no inhibitions as it's very edgy. I don't think most people could handle what I've written so far.
>>7706859
could be interesting if you know what deconstruction is and that you got the word order wrong in your first sentence. it's probably not though, and you're just writing fan fic not deconstruction like the word order currently implies.
It's not a fanfic as I've changed the names. There is no Captain Planet. There is only Captain Death, a weapon of mass destruction.
I modelled the first episode of the story but ended up changing it completely. For example, four heroes are summoned instead of five.
Gaia has a retainer. Only one preceeding planeteer is left alive as "the others died". She's introduced as a school age girl who dark bags under her eyes and a drinking problem. She has the power to knock people unconscious.
The fire ring user is a feminist who burns a...
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>>7706907
yup it's fanfic and you don't know what deconstruction means. there's one board specific rule and that is no fanfic. you're going to have to go read derrida.
>>7706832
why do he always have that expression
>>7706858
He's dead inside.
He can write, and he can think, but he sold out.
He only acts like a cuck to make his content believable.
Sure, anon. Now off to bed. You don't want to be tired for home room in the morning.
can we all take 5 mins to hate this guy or are lit's elitists amused by his portrayals of working class people.
dfw people don't name the pic cus u gotta know evre author by looking at them - it's martin amiss
tfw* going for dat and miss memeing
>>7706803
What did he do that we should hate him for?
I only read The War On Cliche which is essays and reviews of stuff like Ballard and Nabakov. I liked it. As a point of reference I dont care for Harold Bloom.
All right jerks. Ignoring patrician supremist arguments, what do we think?
>>7706723
I liked it a lot when I read it but that was like 8 years ago or something and I was rather young. What I remember mostly is that the atmosphere was very mystical and believable, in more of a mythic than typical fantasy fashion.
>>7706732
Thanks, a.non!
I read it a similar amount of time ago as the other person and found it charming. I liked that there was lots of references to fantastic magical books IIRC.
How to get paid writing erotica?
I want to make money on the side writing this shit. How do i get started?
>>7706713
I thought that was going to be a spider
Gay porn. Niche kink: tentacle, vampire, not-incest, foot fucking, food insertion...
step 1: dont ask 4chan how to get paid writing erotica
When did it fall out of practice for novels to come with illustrations?
Now it seems that illustrations are considered worthy of only children books.
Why can't the latest best seller come with an illustration every fifty pages?
Illustrations are rarely as vivid as the images conjured in my head from a book and they typically clash with my visual interpretation of the novel in an unpleasant way.
Just read comics t b h
but I have played round with the idea of illustrations in my own novel, nothing crazy, just to tease the imagination a little bit.
Out of all the French moralists which do you guys like most?
>>7706661
Seems like a trick question. Montaigne is about as recent as I can handle.
>>7706661
Dunno, lol
But in the first 20 pages or so of Cioran's small aphorism collection "All Gall is Divided", he name-dropped like a dozen of these guys that I was previously unaware had existed.
La Rochefoucauld or La Bruyère
