/lit/ - Literature

An LS Chevy crate engine

>>11389078

if not an LS some kind of inline 6

First off, The Pynch is always OurGuy, regardless of Silicon Valley normies watching IV once. Second off, there is no second off.

>>11389078
knausgaard. post ironic sincerity is the answer

>>11389078
here is my suggestion he's probably the greatest lyricist in the history of indie rock and he writes good books

actually, now that i think about it, /lit/ is full of poorfags so a four banger Honda engine makes the most sense, like a Honda B.

Interesting predictions so far all! Still so far I think mine is more compelling.

my final answer is now the Toyota 4A-GE

>>11389078
the lefties on lit like houllebecq too

>>11389258
He's old and kind of gross though, meanwhile we're young and full of verve.

Walter Benjamin, Flann O'Brien, Alfred Doblin maybe?

>>11389106
Is he anything more than a Proust imitator? Genuinely curious

Leon Bloy.

>>11389078
>we’ve swung leftward
>we
Fuck off reddit

>>11389594
It's an airport fiction for people who feel too cultured for airport fiction.

Jacques Ellul

I'll always champion Richard Powers on this board.

>>11389078
me

Our next guy is quite probably literally our guy, as in he actually posts here. I might even unironically say it's BAP

i hope it never becomes bolano

>>11389721
Apt description.

Unironically me desu

>>11389078
Yukio Mishima

>>11389260
l m a o speak for urself im 48

>>11389949
if bolano wasnt dead id go with him, yeah. he's had a bit of an uptick in popularity on here lately

>>11389964
this, i will be

>>11389720
This

>>11389078
Me, Psoid Froid, the greatest living sophist, of course.
>Both are technically true: I am not #ffffff nor am I a guy; I am a God, temporarily blessing you mortals; count yourselves lucky, leaves.

>>11389078
dubs, get, because the answer is me. also screncappin for when you're all making posts about my novel...

>>11390178
I will take full credit for the bolanista revival. But I mean he will never be /lit/'s guy bc he isn't try hard literature in the vein of Pynchon or dfw so I think the majority of /lit/ go into him expecting something else and simply dismiss him but I am fine with that since the majority of bolano discussion remains memeproof

>>11389106
I remember reading book 1 years ago and really liking it but I picked up book 2 and Karl ove comes off as so insufferable to be me now. He's a whiny, diffident self righteous, ass filled with naieve anxieties. I could see how i liked the book at 23 but this guys a grown man with children. Jesus Christ.

>>11389078
>'cause we've swung leftward since Trump
>- He won't be white–or, indeed, a guy at all.

Is this bait, or does OP genuinely think he is at reddit?

>>11389078
>Houllebcq's no longer an option 'cause we've swung leftward since Trump

no. fuck off. Holla Back is /ourguy/

>>11389078
>we've swung leftward since Trump
speak for yourself faggot

>>11390362
Is it too late for Hyde to be /ourguy/?

>>11389078
>Houllebcq's no longer an option 'cause we've swung leftward since Trump.
I'm leftist and in perfectly fine with Houellebecq being /ourguy/

>>11389078

>>11390345
thank you for your service. bolano threads do seem to be more civil than others. right now im thoroughly enjoying "the return". not quite sure what it is about him but he's very good/compelling. i want to read 2666 soon but the length is a little intimidating.

>>11389722

>>11390353
maybe im just a whiny pretentious dude too but he never really came off as annoying in vol2. i thought it was hilarious, actually. refreshing to see a novel about parenting from a male perspective.

>>11390469
Hyde will make OP his guy.

>>11389078
Know for his whimsical nonsense poetry for children and his vitriolic hatred of jewry

>>11390469

>>11389078
Just give me a few more years, /lit/. I still need to get better.

>>11390526
Said the same fool a few years ago

>>11389721
This. First book is all short chapters, bland prose, and the story is nothing but a pseudo-detective novel with a private eye searching for cleaners and detergents. Subplots about shrimps and bad 80's music abound. Literary read this on a flight to Sweden to get a taste of their culture and ended up with sore arms and a craving for emancipation from my father. Plane got diverted and I ended up spending my day thinking about myself and why my toothpaste tastes like goldfish fish, knowing that the only respite I'd get otherwise was reading this whiny mans smutty nostalgia.

>>11390512
Sauce?

>>11390491
2666 definitely requires quite a bit of time. it is very long but i recommend reading it all in as compact a manner as possible, otherwise you will miss quite a few things. or you can simply read it at your leisure and then re-read it later. in the end you will be able to spot a pleb by those that say 2666 is a mishmash of unrelated stories.

>>11390501
don't get me wrong it is very hilarious to read and i am still working my way through it, but my god do i feel sorry for this man

>>11389078
>My predictions:
>- He won't be white–or, indeed, a guy at all.
So JIDF and CTR have expanded to other boards. Interesting.

>>11390512
quick rundown?

Whoever wrote pic related once he self-publishes the full work

>>11389727
Galatea 2.2 was good

>>11391219
How trite.

>>11391219
Genuinely stoked for this to happen

>>11389721
That's the best summary I've ever seen of that hack.

>>11390894
if this is a sincere post... holy fuck leave.

This guy.

>>11389720
Beat me too it

>>11390894
>>11390362
>>11389720
found the redditors

>>11390894
Right?
>>11391387
Kys faggot

>>11391305
Underrated post.
>>11391219
I hope you burn in Hell for the time you have stolen from me with this putrescent prose.

>>11389078
> Houllebcq's no longer an option
What are you talking about you moron,
Houllebecq is absolutely the living version of /lit/ incarnate.

>>11391442
/ourguy/ must represent all of us, even the non-incels.

>>11391421
Hey fuckback to /pol/, incel. Dontcha know you gotta have sex to get your genes in on the whole eugenics thing?

New meme trilogy:
>Middlemarch
>Mason & Dixon
>Underworld
+ Obligatory nonfiction
>The Arcades Project
>>11391442
Houllebecq actually gets laid

>>11391455
>incel as an insult

back to the huffpost comments section, normalfag

>>11391452
>>11391456
Just because Houllebecq has had sex means nothing, he's clearly never had a woman love him fully which is the only real attribute sexually to make him our guy.

>>11391464
>thinks incel isn't an insult
I sure miss when there weren't deformed Nazi virgins everywhere. Someone popped /pol/ like a pimple and squirted pus everywhere.

>>11391482
you don't miss anything, summerboy. you've only been here since the election

>>11391492
>I ONLY WANTED TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES!!!
leave to your containment board you child.

>>11389720
This.

As for our guy, I think this poster might be right:
>>11389914

If not /lit/ the next /ourguy/ definitely has internet in his or her veins.

>>11391492
>"election"
>"ALL HAIL TRUMP!"
You're definitely not a 20-yr-old virgin, right?

>>11391492
>randomly brings up election
Gr8 b8 m8

>>11389982
Can I genuinely ask why you go on 4chan at your age and how old you were when you discovered this shithole?

>>11391497
My med indo aryan cock in your oneitis ass, normalfag

>>11391537
>>11391542
>randomly
who are you trying to fool, redditors?

>Reactionary permavirgin derails yet another thread

>>11391560
Fucking Indian ass trump supporter, you're such a goddamn stereotype, fuck off, I can't believe I have to share a race with unselfaware schmucks like you.

>>11389078
>>11389720
Seriously. You guys must be 15 to change your political opinions at the drop of a hat

>>11391219
This is amazing, truly a reflect of our times.

>>11391568
You're not among your own, redditor

>>11391574
>merely mentions the election and the influx of normalfag redditors to 4chan
>immediately assumes I'm a drumpf supporter

The state of (you)

>>11391596
>Everyone who disagrees with me is Reddit

>>11391560
> med indo aryan cock

>>11389096
2JZ will lead us to glory

>>11389972
>peen*r smaller than my pinky
yeah no thanks reddit

>>11391635
Do not sign your posts

>>11389720
Newfag /lit/ has always been leftist

>>11391596
Nice plebbit spacing you fucking moronic faggot. You are worthless, and your parents would have been better off with you aborted.

>R. Stevie Moore

>>11389720
/Thread

>>11389078
>Jordan B. Peterson is just a fad
He will be remembered as the most culturally important intellectual of the first half of the 21st century. Time will prove me right.

>>11389096
BASED inline 6.

>>11391648
Spotted the newfag. /lit/ has always been reactionary. There was ever only a small group of marxists and they were memed out of existence until recently when they got assmad about trump and tried to make /leftypol/ a thing. /lit/ use to have Catholic, theology, and traditionalism generals and it was a fuck ton better than it is today. Leftists and /sffg/ destroyed /lit/. I guarentee you I’ve been here longer than you.

>>11392284
Everybody grew up and we don't care about gay shit like that anymore

>>11389078
Guy who wrote the The Gig Economy.

>>11389078
still Houellebecq for me

>>11390512
based womanizer

If you haven't been through M.Hollaback's corpus, or aren't actively doing so then I just don't know what to tell you. M.H. is the premier author of our age. If you don't realize that I have no idea what to tell you; I wouldn't know where to start.

>>11392406
Agreed. He is my favorite novelist. Hilarious, insightful, wicked. Everything I love.

>>11389078
It is unironically this man. America's foremost prose stylist, the late William Gass. His book The Tunnel captures the cringe of /lit/ better than any green troll can.

>>11389078
Gass is dead but he's my one and only guy and I miss the phase /lit/ went through for him.

>>11392440
>>11392548
Yeah nice

>pynchon is in with silicon valley normies
pynchon was always in with smart silicon valley bros that are smarter and less autistic than you. it's a shame to live in the shadow the pareto curve my little friend

>>11392576
Sure thing Ranjeet

>>11389972
>some perpetually butt-bothered fascist queer
Pass

I thought Harold Bloom was Our Guy.

>>11389078
Next prediction; He's probably among us right now

Mothafuckin Gasbro

>>11393090
I miss him

>>11392272
He will be remembered in 20 years time in the same way that Robert Bly and Shepherd Bliss are remembered, that is to say, not at all.

His books are about masturbating, Catholicism, and staring at girls from a distance. What more could you want?

>>11392289
>not being willing to crawl over broken glass for the Eucharist

>>11389078

https://www.tor.com/2018/01/23/book-reviews-chandler-klang-smith-the-sky-is-yours/

>After all the years of doorstopping tomes writing by white literary fiction males (many of whom I love) and all the years of terrified readers being cornered in coffeeshops by wild-eyed young men (and occasionally, um, me) who needed to explain David Foster Wallace’s masterwork, Chandler Klang Smith has unleashed her own slipstream, genrefluid monster of a book—that also happens to be fun, visceral, heartbreaking, and genuinely funny.

What about Cormac McCarthy?

>>11391545
I was 38 when I started. I still come here partly because I guess I haven't really accepted how different this place has become. It's really changed and honestly not really what I used to like it for but I guess I'm addicted to it.

>>11392440
>>11392548
>>11393090
>>11393210
Whatever happened to Gassposter?

also, how do I get into Gass?

>>11389727
read Orfeo recently, would recommend/10

I kek'd pretty hard at this part
>At his click, the room filled with a vivacious, pitch-corrected, and jaw-droppingly sunny little song. On Els’s screen, a thirteen-year-old singer woke up, went to the bus stop, joined her friends in a convertible, and visited a suburban house where an upper-middle-class teen party was in full swing. As the clip rolled, the hit count rose by ten thousand viewers. Shaking off the song, Els searched for an explanation. The Web teemed with ten thousand parodies, reactions, tributes, covers, homages, analyses, and news segments about the global phenomenon.

>>11392284
>joined in 2015
lol

>>11392289
>Everybody grew up

Those threads were like 2 years ago at most and we're all in our early 20s. No one grew up or out of anything

>>11393414
Who?

>>11393210
Been workin’.
New book is done.

>>11393210

>>11394043
You in the Midwest, what's your book about?

>>11390512
based sammyboy

>>11394091
Meeting with professional editor tomorrow to talk edits and sip bourbon.

>>11394180
Oh shit, hahaha I've seen this before, you like Gass?

>>11394180
of is that just a nickname for the Gas station or something?

>>11394180
hey while you're at it, check my thread out anon

>>11393991
>>11394128

>>11394197
Checked and kekked

>>11389112
Wrong

>>11389114
Some of the K20 Hondas are getting cheap enough, and we can be elitist about it too. That gets my vote.

This guy:
https://youtu.be/tmRp4q4Jkb0

>>11392284
Shut the fuck up newfag. This is a hellenismos board.

>>11394194
I used to work in a commercial trucking fuel shed for about a year. Somebody referred to me as “Gaskun” and it stuck

>>11390894
Yeah sadly, I've been seeing more pushback though so maintain hope.

>>11394040
I missed you gaskun baby!

>>11394628
Thnx

>>11389103
this

>This fagtastic "LOL WE'RE SO CONTRARIAN RIGHT GUYS LMAO xD"

Yeah now I remember why I stopped coming here in 2015

>>11394644
No problem handsome. What's new with you?

>>11394879
WRiting books. What you doin?

>>11395803
Same here actually

>>11393465
Oh, good, I was looking for this. Thanks anon.

>>11393594

>>11391456
>The Tunnel
>Women and Men
>Mason and Dixon

FTFY

Q U A D T U R B O V 1 2

Bump

>>11392284
>Catholic, theology, and traditionalism generals
all of these are fairly recent developments

when i started here we didnt have any generals apart from /qtddtot/, whos the newfag now

>>11389078
There isn't a leftist revival on /lit/ no matter how much you people want it.

But there are a lot of post-leftists on this site. And the right isn't nearly as unified on this site as it used to be

And I'll remind all you newfags as I have done for years. Lit is a /Christian Anarchist/ board since we got bored of Catholic Marxism a couple years back

>>11395803
Waiting for you to show up at my door and give me that Gas nozzle. ;)

>>11398795
nah bud, we are catholic marxists.

>>11398795
>>11398813
>tfw catholic enough can tell any pseud larper
>these easy bitches give it away by trying to conflate catholicism and marxism
it doesn't work that way no matter what simone weil said. get baptised and appeal for special dispensation and then maybe i'll reconsider forgetting humanae vitae happened

>>11398827
>>11398813
nah shut the fuck up altar-boys we /tolstoy/ board now

>>11390396
nuke yourself incel scum

>>11390469
>>11390512
so, no, it's not too late

>>11398810
Oh dear

>>11389078
>Houllebcq's no longer an option 'cause we've swung leftward since Trump.
*eyeroll*

>>11389078
This board was literally always left.
I fucking began reading Marx and Bakunin and Stirner as a 16 year old on /lit/ 5 or so years ago.

lads, according to my schedule this week we're meant to be LARPing as mysterious to the point of agnosticism noddy ahistoricism card players and invading /tg/ with claims that scoring without a leapfrog pegging is perfectly legit. did i take it down wrong? do modern cribbage rules apply now? i'm only equipped for eight card cribbage without a second peg, and we're going to have to get on a train for that and involve /n/ if we're playing according to hoyle.
>tldr- sorry lads i really thought it was cribbage religion week, not chess religions

>>11399931
No you didn’t, because the leftist element was always a small subset of /lit/. You’re correct in saying that there’s always been leftists here, but you’re deluded if you in any way believe /lit/ has ever been primarily left. And it has always been religious. /lit/ was alone in for a while in the absolute destruction of the Nu-Atheist menace while the rest of 4chan was tipping fedoras. I’m assuming you don’t remember the constant shitpost a from /sci/ and /pol/ we had daily shitposting about STEM master race and “LOL DEAD KIKE ON A STICK”

>>11400018
you probably were on drugs or just posted in 2-3 threads hence having tunnel vision about the rest of the board

>>11400029
Pot, kettle. Etc

>>11399958
>i'm only equipped for eight card cribbage without a second peg,
>eight card cribbage is played without pegs, board, or cards
>>only equipped for eight card cribbage without a second peg
>he didn't even bring cards
there's always one

>>11400029
I was probably heavily on drugs.
I do remember shitposting but that does not make up the majority of the board, which is made up of its lurkers.
There were always more people who were spiritually aligned with conservatism but often open minded and (if that can be said about the state of /lit) about progressive politics.
Maybe that only deacribes me but, hey, who else could I know in an anonymous board?

>>11400037
i brought the board

>>11400109
>no pegs at all
>not even a workable eight card number/letter sequence
>no pegs at all
fuck you >>11400109 and >>11399958 /lit/ cribbage week is off.

/lit/ is now a maoist go board against gambling as it promotes the four olds: habit, ideas, custom, and culture.