/lit/ - Literature

>>4097916
epicurean 'cause all i do all day is smoke crack

>>4098271
An ALDIs knock-off brand.

Novels are for the everyman, remember.

>>4098244
Good novels invest the reader in what's going on, and keep them immersed all the way through. There have been countless best-sellers out there with terrible prose, but well-formulated characters and conflict. I think that's what differentiates novels from other genres: it's much more about form than style or function.

>Also. What would you like to see happen more in literature?

I want you to revitalize speculative fiction and usher in a new era of sci fi.

>>4097586
It's in a rut. All of sci-fi is in a rut.

Cyberpunk's been in a decline ever since post-modernism began its decline, which makes sense. Sci-Fi in the west is stagnating due to how the general public views science and technology: either with apathy or distrust.

OP, check out Gibson's "Pattern Recognition." He improved quite a bit over the years as a writer. IIRC, it's his latest work.

"You gotta get the rhythm right," he told me. "Right now you're just smashing into her and _she's_ trying to match _your_ movement. And that's hard to do on all fours. You've gotta buck before she screams. She yells and you pull. Buck and pull – she's the boss.”

>>4098200
>that picture
nice.

>Have anything you need drawn? I can draw shitty little scribbles.

Not at the moment, no. Would you be interested in basing "shitty little scribbles" off shitty little bits of prose and poetry?

>>4098162
It'd be an interesting method of seeing how a scene or image in text can be translated to a completely different form. In the previous issues where we had illustrations, they were just there to "fill up" the issue.

The direction we're currently thinking discourages simple mimesis.

>>4098136
Nothing, really. I've been playing The Sims recently and I keep getting those creepy phone calls.

But just in case you should make your voice sound deeper and pretend they got the wrong #

Anyway, the whole mag's gonna be undergoing a change over the next month or so: the space between releases is gonna be widened, art & illustrations for submissions, a greater focus on craft & writing workshops, a larger staff, and hopefully a full-blown website instead of a wordpress.

that's why we really can't have anything happen to you in that time

Yup.

http://theaprilreader.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/tar-issue-30-released/

But expect changes to happen very soon.

Be careful with answering your phone over the next few days.

>>4025432
>10th grade was a teacher that aspired to be a holocaust literature professor, but got stuck with high school english. so our class was a holocaust literature class.

Christ, that sounds awful. She was basically mass-producing neo nazis.

>>4024279

Globalism. Airlines are a signifier for trans-continental infrastructure and business correspondences; the pizza is a universal image of cosmopolitan take-out. Also that sentence is horribly structured.

What's the context of "equinox" though?

>>4024190
We may roll them over and we may not. Oftentimes we DO pass up on great submissions because we don't want to feature the author in an issue more than two times.

If you want to ensure that we forward the rest of the submissions to the next issue's pile, go ahead and send us an e-mail.

>>4024160
>>4024160

How 'bout just "Trembling" then?

Hey OP, an idea:

Instead of "Nocturnes of the Lost Country" why not
>Lost Country Nocturnes

Or instead of "The Dead Cry Out in Ink and Flame" why not
>Ink and Flame

What do you guys think?

>>4024002
>for a limited time only, every iPad[tm] purchase will come bundled with the iTypewriter[tm] app, a picture of a camera, and copy of Samuel Beckett's quintessential work, "Le Nausee"

not /lit/

>>4023060
>welcome to /lit/

>>4023012
>marketing and psychology are more or less the same practice put towards different ends since the '50s

No. The former has stuck to the same concepts since the 50's while the latter continues to evolve. The broad category of "Psychology" has expanded and changed into something entirely different from what it was in the 20th century, and only continues to change.

Furthermore, as advertisements are becoming less and less effective in making consumers by a product, it's becoming increasingly clear that the same marketing methods used 50 years ago are no longer as viable in the modern age.

>>4022575
keep digging deeper until you reach the surface

>>4023010
Maybe something like "Writing Scary Comics"?

/r/ing "The Penis Was" and " Throw the Towel In, Tao Lin"

>>4022949
For the most part, Psychoanalysis really is just an antique paradigm, anon -- like the bust of an old, dead professor that sits in a university dean's office.

While I do think its integral in understanding the western culture of the early-to-mid 20th century, it really has no practical applications in the field of psychology anymore.

>>4022859
Who says he was a hack?

Psychoanalysis is very much alive in the field of literary criticism. Freud's theories of trauma and the labor of mourning give authors great building blocks in creating characters and conflict.

>>4022960
Last time I checked, advertising was created by marketers with marketing degrees, not psychoanalysts.

>>4022971
This. What's the story about, OP? All those titles are pretty awful.