/lit/ - Literature

>>22020797
Pinecone... killed Walrus?

>>21468637
>Foster-Wallace

>>20597975
>work at dollar tree
>get on 4chan to rest from work
>threads about fucking dollar tree

>>20271491
>>20271502
>>20272079
>>20272150
If it's bad for women to be sluts, how can it be good for men to make more women into sluts?

>>20096770

>>19929661
>IJ and the oeuvre of senior Wallace has a lot of cynical, racist, psychopathic, misanthropic, sexist, fascistic, anti-Americal undertones that are obvious if you read his work sympathetically.
Were you attempting to employ postmodern irony? Because your reading of "senior" Wallace strikes me as pathologically unsympathetic.

>>19891943
Unironically read Infinite Jest

>>19803028
>le epic nerdy puzzle-book man
If DFW were alive today he'd kill himself all over again.

>>19808358
Replace happiness with the avoidance of suffering and it's plausible.

>>19769199
>Bobby C. and Gene Gene the Fax Machine have no connection to Don Gately

>>19411712
None I could discern, at least.

>>18919066
Please stop posting in these threads “Waldunthuds”. You might have a good little chuckle to yourself and think you are really quite clever to ironically praise Waldun and devote time ironically to reading his books and watching his videos and posting long ironic analyses, all as a means of secretly pleasuring yourself, of remaining in a protective bubble of ironic stupidity. It is a means of firstly retaining your superiority to him (for the closeness of Waldun’s image to your own is frightening to you, threatening to dismantle your own projected self-image) by detaching yourself from him through a layer protective irony, and secondly as a means of detaching yourself from your own time and own authenticity, as if you did not need to use the time reading real literature and devoting yourself to real projects, to actually try and be something like Waldun is trying (however unsuccessfully) to do. Instead you allow yourselves to exist in an ironic fantasy where all your real values are inverted, where you praise what is antithetical to your ideal (Waldun) and devote absurd lengths of time in an inverted practise to this ideal comically, protecting yourselves from the horrible existential reality of your own self, your dizzyingly large but all-too-limited time on earth. Irony protects you from the horror of authenticity, from the constant problem of being. Your ironic worship of Waldun is a means of comforting your own mediocrity, and the irony is self-protective and immune to vulnerability in the sense that authentic discussion is not, in that it allows you to dismiss critics and people who tell you to use your time better as “not in on the joke” — but you are so devoted to your ironic performance that you would never state this explicitly, never allowing the ironic mask to drop, never showing your own vulnerable, authentic self. What you don’t realise is that anything you do ironically, you still DO. You are still praising Waldun, still devoting inordinate amounts of time to these inane threads, still polluting your minds and wasting your very real, very precious time. Wake up: read Kierkegaard and Heidegger and DFW (unironically), authentically be-toward-death, realise the infinite strangeness and potential of your own individual existence, your one life which no-one else but you can live, and which — however much you want to separate yourself from it and to ignore its existence — you CURRENTLY ARE.

>The Times deputy books editor, James Marriott, had to deactivate his Twitter account for a while last year because of the vilification hurled at him for writing a feature noting the lack of young male novelists these days. Undaunted, two weeks ago the Observer ran a feature titled "How women conquered the world of fiction."
>Its author, Johanna Thomas Corr, didn't receive the same attacks as Marriott but others quoted in the piece did. Nor publisher Hannah Westland, who openly acknowledged that "If a really good novel by a writer lands on my desk, I do genuinely say to myself, this will be more difficult to publish," or publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, who agreed that "men don't get a look-in" (Bookseller's news archive shoes that of 77 debut novels featured last year, 7 were by men).
>No, the recipients of abuse were more predictable. "Some of the men quoted in this very good article should be ashamed of themselves," said novelist James Smythe, while fellow author Sam Myers, who appeared in the piece, complained about other men quoted being anonymous:
>"The refusal to comment openly... contributed to the idea that a sinister cabal of woke power mongers will cancel you if you dissent." Perish the thought!
>Byers responded to Marriott's piece last year by denouncing one of the interviewees as a "fuckwit" and Smythe said the Times should be "fucking ashamed of themselves" for publishing "misogyny."
Is literature a woman's world now?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/booker-prize-2020-longlist-where-are-the-new-male-hotshot-novelists-j5x8xq6mr

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/16/how-women-conquered-the-world-of-fiction

>as such

>>17163585
Do you think he looked back at this interview and thought "why the fuck did I make those stupid faces" whilst making stupid faces as he watched himself?

>>16649054
>study Propp's analysis of fairy tales in middle school/junior high
>homework is writing a fairy tail based on what we learned
>we have to read our stories in front of the class
>teacher interrupts me every 5 sentences to point out how shit my story is
He wasn't being an asshole, it was actually shit. He was a based old-school teacher, he was strict and demanding because he wanted you to do your best. I also take some solace in the fact that no one was listening, so I was really only embarrassing myself in front of my teacher.

>>16658761
You had a tummy fetish in fifth grade? Absolutely patrician.

>underage newfags falling for OP's blatant bait

What's the worst thing you've ever written?

POST HERE YOUR QUESTIONS THAT DON'T DESERVE THEIR OWN THREAD:
>Books with X theme?
>What am I in for?
>What was his/her problem?
>Books like X?
>Do I need to read X to understand Y?
>other questions I can't think of right now

This is an experiment, /lit/ is complaining lately.
I think this could help the board quality overall.
Direct all questions that in your opinion don't deserve their own thread to here.
Keep this thread open if you like to help fellow anons out with their questions.
Turning this in a general avoids newfags asking those same questions over and over again.
Also other repetitive posts that don't really need their own thread can be directed here.

Feel free to discuss your thoughts about this becoming a general and maybe improve the template, and save it on our wiki so we could easily copy paste.

>anonymous imageboard
>majority of posts are desperate attempts at ego protection and maintenance.

>read note I made on story I'm writing
>can't remember what the fuck I meant by it

How much stock does /lit/ put in literary criticism? How many truly great critics have there been in history?

>>15843418
I'm doing ok but your point that not many people will read it is really slowing me and getting me down. I'm just so eog driven by need to be noticed and loved that the idea of only a 100 people reading my work (if I'm lucky) makes me not want to do it. I do love the craft but the motivating factors of fame and renown are too embedded deep in my psyche for me to discount them. I sent a good long while focusing on being a filmmaker, a craft I'm temperamentally much less suited for, because, in part, that seemed like the easiest medium to get noticed in.

Write a stream of consciousness about what was going on in his head whenever he made this face.