/lit/ - Literature

>>14912532
That's a difficult question, sir. The competition now is so fierce that a GPA that low if a definite obstacle. A new year of 4th-year English classes might work, but your odds of finding a good position ultimately would be very low in this market. If you have the drive to write and publish, focus on that: even one or two published works can make grad schools eager for you regardless of your academics. Get a literary best-seller and they'll make you a writer-in-residence!

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>>11987599
I grew up with a prof and a librarian/teacher for parents, had access to unlimited books from birth, and read stacks of them weekly. I had a nice mix of young stuff, classics, old stuff, random curiosity-motivations, poetry, nonfiction, etc. It was great, and my reading level, interest, and comprehension were always far beyond my peers. Of course nobody cares about such things when you're a bit older, but it led to my career as an English professor, so I regret nothing. I still love discovering new books, and pick new/used ones up almost daily.

>>11100697
I admit it. I'm in Ontario and love cheap used books.

>>10954343
Most of the people on this board are high school or college-age unpublished fakers who haven't read most of the books they discuss. Why are you surprised that they just put down anything you offer? They make fun of great authors knowingly all the time too.

My to-read stack changes depending on my mood, but here's what I picked up on Monday.

Sometimes you don't find anything good at the library bookstores in Canada, but other times you make out nicely. I mean, the Lessing short stories, the Coetzee, and Confucius aren't too unusual, or even the Thomas King, but Marguerite Duras' book on writing? A rarely-seen Philip K. Dick? Skvorecky? Maria Chapdelaine? A collection of American black folk tales? A perfect hardcover of Tove Jansson's early memoirs?? And I got to upgrade my Louis Riel to the anniversary edition. All for the price of one new paperback. This was a decent morning.