/lit/ - Literature

>Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
>Cherry by Nico Walker
>The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littel
>Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Stephen Florida was recc'd to me in another thread and i loved it. wish i would've saved that thread, there were a lot of great recs. i'm taking a break from TKOs but it's very good so far. Crossroads was my first Franzen and I don't get why people hate him

>>22421106
>who is a nobody and I never heard of him
He's mentioned in the archive heaps. You probably read slop.
>>/lit/?task=search&ghost=false&search_text=cherry+walker
>And also you know nothing about my life.
I know it's pathetic and devoid of meaning, since you live on social media and lurk this abysmal thread.

>>22313050

ok can’t cut it down from 6 plus i read mostly nonfic but. johnny got his gun by trumbo, waiting by ha jin, oranges are not the only fruit by winterson, we have always lived in the castle by jackson, cherry by walker, & lapvona by moshfegh. currently. i’ve got a major soft spot for anne brontë also

>>22263628
Can't recommend Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash enough. Great book with an honestly unique character that's kind of hard to understand at times.
Author was influenced by 2666 (not for this book specifically but his writing in general) if that's your cup of tea

I thought Nico Walker's Cherry was alright but it's a mix of fiction and non fiction

>>22180644
>Nico Walker
Wrote an autobiographical book called "Cherry" about how he dropped out of university to fight in Iraq (says he has "seven medals and commendations" on his wiki but the sources it links to don't back it up) and ended up addicted to opioids. He went to prison for a bank robbery.

An ex prostitute turned e-celeb and a heroin addict/felon. I wonder what their shelf-life is going to be.

>>22046576
I liked Robert Kolker's Hidden Valley Road as well as Nico Walker's Cherry. Other than that I haven't read much modern literature. I'm hoping to read Bad Blood by John Carreyrou , about Theranos, soon.

It's a little below your cutoff but David Browne's Goodbye 20th Century is in my stack for this year, about Sonic Youth

A True Novel (Minae Mizumura)
Cherry (Nico Walker)
The Year of the Hare (Arto Paasilinna)
The Man Who Spoke Snakish (Andrus Kivirahk)
Universal Harvester (John Darnielle)
Abigail (Magda Szabo)

>>21328614
Read Cherry by Niko Walker about a year ago. Not the greatest but its a true story about a marine who came back and got so addicted to H he started robbing banks. Dude wrote it from jail. Best ive reqd so far on the modern opioid epidemic, well not that Ive read anything else really.

>>20750560
Cherry by Nico Walker, I think. I didn’t finish it, but iirc he just decided to write in prison and got it published.

>>20750560
Cherry by Nico Walker, I think. I didn’t finish it, but iirc he just decided to write in prison and got it published.

>>19599913
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan (2018)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (2018)
Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes (2018)
In Search of Wisdom: A Monk, a Philosopher, and a Psychiatrist on What Matters Most by Matthieu Ricard, Christophe André, and Alexandre Jollien (2018)
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts (2018)
What Are We Doing Here?: Essays by Marilynne Robinson (2018)
Normal People by Sally Rooney (2018)
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak (2018)
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith (2018)
Feel Free by Zadie Smith (2018)
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2018)
Well-Being as Value Fulfillment: How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well by Valerie Tiberius (2018)
The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds by Gavin Van Horn (2018)
Cherry by Nico Walker (2018)
An Illustrated Theory of Numbers by Martin H. Weissman (2018)
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (2018)
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (2018)
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang (2018)
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism by Slavoj Žižek (2018)
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (2019)
What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use by Sara Ahmed (2019)
Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (2019)
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson (2019)
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (2019)
Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2019)
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon (2019)
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times by Michael Beschloss (2019)
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson (2019)
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola (2019)
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean M. Carroll (2019)
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep (2019)
The Kingdom of Copper by S. A. Chakraborty (2019)
Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng (2019)
Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World by Pema Chödrön (2019)
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019)
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People by Ben Crump (2019)
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran (2019)
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple (2019)
The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis (2019)
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco (2019)

>>17885508
I assume the feel you are looking for is something distinctly American, not from Southern California or NYC. either souther gothic or midwestern in terms of mood, probably working class characters, criminals, vagrants, addicts, broken people, with a prevailing down note, melancholy, or doomed quality? If so, here are some...

And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
Cherry by Nico Walker
Townie by Andre Dubus III
The Knockout Artist by Harry Crews
"The Pugilist at Rest" by Thom Jones (Only a short story but very good)

>>17721205
In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott. Consists of letters he wrote to Norman Mailer about being imprisoned in the late 70s/80s for manslaughter, bank robbery, and forgery.
Cherry by Nico Walker sorta/kinda fits the bill as he wrote it while incarcerated although it isn't explicitly about prison life, more about drug abuse, his time in the military, and robbing banks to support his drug addiction which started in the military.
The House of the Dead by Dostoevsky is about his time in a Siberian prison camp during the 1850s(?)

>>16322127
G-SPoT
This is actually dank. Clearly influenced by LA hardcore and screamo, as well as oldschool indie. They kind of sound like deerhoof now that I think about it.
Read Proust to get simultaneously comfy and mindfucked, like the band you posted.
>>16322147
Nice. This is not black metal proper but seems BM adjacent, maybe doom metal? I'm not up on my subgenres.
Obviously the best book for black or doom metal is mythology, followed by books which would tantalize your love of the grotesque. Maybe In the Miso Soup for you.
>>16322221
Deathgrips is pretty good but deathgrips mashups are meme material, and you came so close to greatness with your digits.
For that you get a book which is by meme, and which came close to greatness. Broom of the system.
>>16322226
King Crimson. Great band, very much of their time. What time is that? the 1970s.
For you, a book which is very much of the 1970s as well: the non-fiction journalistic work Helter Skelter. Matches the KC themes pretty well as well.
>>16322263
I genuinely dislike this. Way too much going on. Some book I don't like which has too much going on, how about this is the obligatory nick land recommendation.
>>16323865
Representing the LBC.
Personal fave from recent years, Cherry by Nico Walker.

My song:
https://youtu.be/iEDHdOiNjnE

>>15728489
Read "Cherry" by Nico Walker if you're looking for some good fiction written after 2015.

>>15728631
First one to come to mind. Glad someone else thought of it right away.

OP, read this one. And Jesus’s Son if you haven’t read it.

Cherry by Nico Walker is a more recent one. I liked it well enough. Not nearly as good as Angels, though.

>Alice Munro — Too Much Happiness
>Margaret Atwood — Wilderness Tips
>Mark Leyner — Et Tu, Babe
>Esmé Weijun Wang — The Collected Schizophrenias
>David Foster Wallace — Infinite Jest
>Stephen King — Night Shift
>William Gaddis — The Recognitions
>Carmen Maria Machado — Her Body and Other Parties
>Stephen King — Nightmares & Dreamscapes
>Carmen Maria Machado — In The Dream House
>Adam Johnson — Fortune Smiles
>Hanya Yanagihara — A Little Life
>Steven Millhauser — Dangerous Laughter
>Susan Sontag — I, etcetera
>Lisa Robertson — The Baudelaire Fractal
>James Agee — A Death In The Family
>Hunter S. Thompson — The Great Shark Hunt
>Ronan Farrow — War on Peace
>Samanta Schweblin — Fever Dream
>Claudia Rankine — Citizen
>Rachel Cusk — Coventry
>Kate Briggs — This Little Art
>Ben Lerner — Leaving the Atocha Station
>Ben Lerner — 10:04
>Olga Tokarczuk — Flights
>Richard Powers — The Echo Maker
>Nico Walker — Cherry
>Arthur C. Clarke — Childhood's End
>Jonathan Franzen — The Twenty-Seventh City, The Corrections, & Freedom
>Vladimir Nabokov — Transparent Things
And the Collected Poems of Octavio Paz

Self Isolation is wonderful for reading desu.

>>15387080

Hordubal

Krakatit

Another Roadside Attraction (Tom Robbins)

Mundo Cruel

The Gospel of Christian Atheism

Mars (Fritz Zorn)

The Book of the City of Ladies

Armand V

The Crime of Father Amaro

Death and the Penguin

Chicago (Alaa Al-Aswani)

Night People

The Porcine Canticles

Nada

...And the Earth did not devour him

Heartsnatcher (Boris Vian)

The Will of the Universe: The Unknown Intelligence

The Motion of Light in the Water

Riddley Walker

Cherry (Nico Walker)

The Time of Man

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

Ka (by Velimir Khlebnikov)

>>15076321
Cherry by Nico Walker

>>14617620
I was very happy to have what little stability and respectability I've managed to put together after reading Cherry by Nico Walker.

>>14476684
cocaine cowboys is a good book
You sort of described a book called Cherry by nico walker, which I greatly enjoyed. Bank robberies, heroin addiction, military, autofiction

Salinger is GOAT so you won’t really find much. Rebecca Curtis short stories are the closest I’ve found. Cherry by Nico Walker is a pale imitation but still a fun read.

>>12482744
Most recent to oldest:
The histories- Tacitus
Meditations - M. Aurelius
The Annals- Tacitus
Wind up bird Chronicle- murakami
Pseudolus- Plautus
The Satyricon- Petronius
Cherry- Nico Walker
Typee- Melville
His excellency Eugene Rougon- Zola
Crying of lot 49- Pynchon

>last

Unclay - TF Powys
The Third Hotel - Laura Van Den Berg
Cherry - Nico Walker

>current

The Desert and it’s Seed - Jorge Barón Biza