/lit/ - Literature

>>23267486
Forgetting someone, Anon?

>The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (1942)
>The Stand by Stephen King (1978)
>Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (1981)
>The Thin Red Line by James Jones (1962)
>Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (1973)
>The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (1988)
>Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
>Fuzz by Ed McBain (1968)
>Alligator by Shelley Katz (1977)
>The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy (1991)
>https://www.openculture.com/2014/02/david-foster-wallaces-surprising-list-of-his-10-favorite-books.html
I thought you guys said this guy was literary? This is just genre fiction. Crossing Infinite Jest off my "to read" list right now.

What would David Foster Wallace think of the MCU?

Why does he wear the hat?

no. gen x was the last time people read books in general, they produced writers of a certain caliber like dfw, easton ellis, chuck phalinuk, Zadie Smith, etc.

What did millennials produce?

jk rowling?

alt lit? lol


What have zoomers produced, NOTHINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

His reputation went from america's greatest living novelist to litbro icon. What will his legacy be 20 years from now?

He would've wanted you to get off 4chan and social media. And stop watching TV i guess

>If you ask [Christians] who is Amos or Obadiah, how many apostles there were or prophets, they stand mute; but if you ask them about the horses or drivers, they answer with more solemnity than sophists or rhetors.
>St. John Chrysostom
was he original picrel?

>>22186635
Stop being ironic.

why does he make this board lose their minds?

He is the smashing pumpkins to DFWs nirvana

what if he pulls a dfw and becomes the dfw of alt lit

>>19875712
also brett easton elllis and chuck plainuck

How's the water, kid?

Surely I jest
My left hand at the court rules.

The problem with BEE is that he was never as smart as DFW, DFW knew what was coming so he killed himself. Now the reactionary social justice crew can never touch him. He won. And it makes them mad.

Millinals are dumb as fuck and dont read books. The last great american author was DFW, a white male, and it makes them mad as fuck. And he saw what was coming and escaped

BEE just needs to come to terms with the fact he is a centrist and that young people are stupid and to start writing books for old gen x people who hate young people

jews are terrible at literature. every single book written by a jew is a thinly veiled allegory for their psychological hang ups and perverse fetish for shiksas.

The true art of the jew is cinema (kubrick, polanski, Spielberg, allen, etc)

The best western literary writers have always been white christian males

>infinite jest
>autoerotic asphyxiation

>>11779571
>audience pussy

>>11468039

>What is it about King’s writing that appeals to so many people? Clearly, King’s readers — many of whom seem to get hooked on him when they are adolescents — don’t care that the sentences he writes or the scenes he constructs are dull. There must be something in the narrative arc, or in the nature of King’s characters, that these readers can’t resist. My sense is that King appeals to the aggrieved adolescent, or the aggrieved nerdy adolescent, or the aggrieved nerdy adult, who believes that people can be divided into bad and good (the latter would, of course, include the aggrieved adolescent or adult), a reader who would rather not consider the proposition that we are all, each of us, nice good people awash in problems and entirely capable of evil. King coddles his readers, all nice, good, ordinary, likeable people (just like the heroes of his books), though this doesn’t completely explain why these readers are so tolerant of the bloat in these novels, why they will let King go on for a couple hundred pages about some matter that has no vital connection to the subject of the book.

>>11303276
>Asked about novelist David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008, but who has a new book out, “The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel,” put together from manuscript chapters and files found in his computer, Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”
>It’s all a clear indication, Bloom notes, of the decline of literary standards. He was upset in 2003 when the National Book Award gave a special award to Stephen King. “But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. [Wallace] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.’
>“It’s sort of a dark time. Imaginative energy I think is very difficult to summon up when there are so many distractions. There’s a kind of Grisham’s law [in literature]; the bad drives out the good.”

lol

>>11205255
Nah, just learn the relevant memes. Most people here don't read