/lit/ - Literature

Are there any hip relatively young fiction writers out there I can get excited about? Is there anybody out there with their finger on the pulse?

>>18708935

>>18695125
how can a city be international?

read?

It's crazy how much better I feel when I get 8 hours of sleep, go for a run, don't get high, read a little, call my dad, and eat clean.

>>18581503
If you like Melville, you of course need to read Shakespear, a major influence on him.
Mcarthy is literally gay for Melville and Blood Meridian is basically MobyDick2, so read that.
Then read Suttree.

>>17104866
No, I think we all just got bored and don't want to read. There's this weird middle ground when it comes to social media and 4chan. Like, say there's something you should be doing e.g. work, school, etc. but you are avoiding it, but you know you should do it, your brain tells you that you can't do something that's purposely fun like reading a novel or playing a video game or watching a movie. These things take time and dedication and you know you should do that thing. So you go to /lit/ and you shit post a few times. You giggle. You get some (you)'s, but then you start feeling as if everything on here is just shitposts about spooks and the greeks. You start thinking about how there used to be memes about Finnegan's Wake and that those memes came from people who actually read Finnegan's Wake. Then you see some shitty disguised thread where someone asks "books for this feel" and the comments are all people giving opinions with no books recs, all completely talking past each other. Not agreeing. Not contrasting. The only time any one of those many self centered one line posts about gommunism or burgerstands or pedophilia that will get (you)s is when someone diametrically opposes what you have to say. They aren't trying to engage in good faith, they haven't even read Capital. No, they are doing what you do of shitposting for a quick laugh. The support libertarian ideology as much as they could spatchcock a turkey. They are a bunch of 18 year old little shits who haven't experienced the extra decade of life you have. So you think, "huh, maybe I should put some effort into my posts." And so you do, but you lose the (you)'s but you know someone must have read it, and someone must have thought that your post was okay. Or at least that's how I cope.

>How many times have I watched the interview? More times than I’d like to share. I once fell asleep to it every night for a week. It was just so calming and evoked a strange temporal comfort, of another time and place where I wasn’t so inundated with trivial information about the world or with ideological predispositions that made me care. You could tell he wanted to either not speak or talk on a point for hours, but the long form interview is the closest thing television got to real informational literature. It’s fantastic. The camera man is a jokester and the interviewer is callously attempting to be genuine only after he forces her to. Their play between precondtructed question and the accidental narrative arc he gives the whole thing is magical. In a twist of irony this interview has had more impact on me than most of his writing. I’ve read lots of his essays and enjoyed them. I’ve tried to read infinite jest twice, both times stopping somewhere between p100-200. His demeanor, his regretful and bashful intellect, it’s all things I wish I could see in myself. I want to be more secluded and smart, but I’m the loud, boisterous and obnoxious fellow at parties everyone either loves or despises. I’ve learned I don’t care much for that life but I’m too deep into my own life to really be able to rewrite my entire personality, and even if I could, wouldn’t it just be a false replication or simulation of who a person wanted to be. I think I’ll watch it to sleep tonight. These past few months have been rough, and DFW in that video is more a friend than any of my personal friendships and relationships have ever been. I hate, and I assume he would go, this idolizing, but I think he gets at it in the interview when he talks about how reading lets you get into the mind of a person more so than we ever will talking to them. I know this may be too sincere or honest for /lit/ and for the dfw meme, but life is just really hard these days. It’s nice to find nice things in the world.

Bar exam question answers because I procrastinated too long due to the pandemic.

At night I've been reading a few pages of Infinite Jest and it's been brutal. I'm really enjoying it but every few sections feels like a personal attack.

>>16405746
I think he would have said something like:
>I'm just a little writer, I don't think anyone cares what I think politically about all this going on, but it's really scary to see some of the things goin' on in the U.S., and how television and the internet have just made it worse. I wrote my book about domestic terrorism as actual acts of violence, but I think I may have got that wrong. It's indifference, incompetence, and spite at the very top that have cause so much of what's going on to happen. I mean, just look at how CNN and Fox and Brietbart and all these groups just keep talking everything as if both sides have legitimate arguments. And these people at the top tweeting out about how "someone should do something." They all just expect problems to be fixed after someone points them out, it's trickly, because then we come to the problem of normaliziation. I mean, come on, look at this stuff, man. The sky is on fire and the coast is underwater while a deadly virus is killing thousands of americans. Do you really think this is normal? Because when I turn on the TV, that's exactly what they make everything out to be. Normal. And that's how the incompetent people at the top get away with it. W-was that good? I was almost lucid there for a second.

>>15904214
>How

>>15157020
I really liked his essays, got through consider the lobster pretty quickly, dropped off IJ somewhere around 200 pages. I have a copy of interviews, but it didn't really catch me. Any advice?

>>14977846
>no racists allowed
>on 4chan

How new are you

>>14641287
Anything other than actually reading, huh /lit/?

>the fact that this shit got published

she must have some real kosher friends in the industry

>tfw guenonfag is mallu expat
this explains a lot

>>14567250
daily reminder that if guenonfag makes a long post declaring how not-triggered he is by something, that means it triggers him.

>"David is the Id of the Now. If you quote me, say I quipped it. Say ' "David is the Id of the Now," quipped ______, who is the film's _____.'"

>>14331231
What language is that written in?

What did he mean by this?