/lit/ - Literature

With libraries and piracy, why should anyone pay for books anymore?

Do you prefer to buy a poet's Selected Poems or Collected Poems?

Are there any good public domain translations of classic canonical works? If so, which ones are they?

Are there any good public domain translations?

Buying used books give me the heebie jeebies so I only buy new ones.

What is writing a novel like? How difficult is it?

Whatever happened to that anon who said he was interviewing Joseph McElroy?

Is this a good list of the best Spanish-language novels of the 20th century?

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Lista_El_Mundo_de_las_100_mejores_novelas_en_espa%C3%B1ol

>/lit/ hates Murakami
>/lit/ loves Mishima
Explain yourselves

>>16386538
Yes I spotted them in my bum

>>16383745
There’s like a 99% chance that you’re already set for life anon. Unironically

>>16382443
She’s your MOTHER

>It’s another “old white drug addict tells me to clean my room while raking in millions a year” episode

>>16247293
Yeah I’m looking for something kind of like this. Something rooted in basic human experiences that tugs at the heartstrings but is set against the most godforsaken country on the face of the planet. When they put one last joint in the main character’s mouth as he lays on his deathbed they’ll shower him with tacky Chinese made dude weed dude I’m Rastafarian touristy bullshit as his eyes roll into the back of his head and foam escapes from his mouth
>>16247299
My parents are going to die soon and they refuse to die anywhere else. It has to be Stinkisland no where else is good enouggh for my parenrs

>Author shills his book on a Sri Lankan poo flinging outpost
>Author has an autistic meltdown when people tell him he’s not very good

>>16066235
My novel idea is a stinking monkey from the isle of Japan buys out a prominent English-language forum where literal pedophiles circlejerk about Adolf Hitler all day. He scrapes together as much personal info belonging to these genetic dead ends as he can and sells it to Google and AWS to the tune of millions of dollars. Google now tracks this grotesque yellow man’s money-printing pet-project unfettered. But what of AWS? Well they’ve set up camp on one board and one board only, the aptly named “Literature” board. I wonder why that is

>>16053767
What the hell am I looking at exactly?

>>16052725
I refuse to engage with a filthy cross-poster who not only cross-posts filthily but does so on the worst board on 4channel

>>16000000
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>>15998139
What is the pre-eminent translation of the Divine Comedy? I’ve never read it