/lit/ - Literature

>>21252458

>>16736431
its a meme

>>13355992

all time favorite

>>12956592
>paradife loft
this is what anon's referring to, top kek

"paradife loft"

>>12682276
spoke too soon. This might be my favorite. Gets me every single fucking time

>>12465215
I feel you on the Thoreau front. Walden didn't click for me until I revisited it a few times. Curiously enough, the best way into Thoreau is through his journals. NYRB put out a selected edition a few years back. It's worth picking through.

>Dickens is more of a rhetorician than a poet
...maybe? I mean, I see why you say that, but I have to disagree. Passages in David Copperfield rival Nabokov in sheer delight/construction, especially the little montages where Dickens ages David by five or six years in as many pages. Nobody reads his essays anymore. Real shame. "The Uncommercial Traveller" is fantastic. If you're still not convinced to sink some time into Dickens, just read his essay about walking around London. If you read that and don't want to read more that's fine. But Bleak House is a masterpiece of English prose.

I have Pilgrim on my desk right now! It's not long, about 300 or less pages. Think of it as a spiritual successor to Walden. It helps to read them back to back. (Annie Dillard did her thesis on spirituality in Walden.)

Also! Virginia Woolf! Of course the novels -- Mrs Dalloway and To The Lighthouse and Three Guineas -- but she really shines in her essays. Check out her "Common Readers" and the collection "The Death of the Moth."

Please do read Morrison!

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>>11031184
I'll never get tired of this