/lit/ - Literature

I just finished it last night. A bit of a muted ending but Good Lord what a journey. Starting Stella Maris tonight.

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I loved this collection. Quite similar to the first collection of Burroughs' letters IIRC.

Not bad, fk the haters. The only thing I would add is a reading guide for Ulysses; a family friend gifted me one along with a nice copy of the book and the guide is larger than the book itself. So good.

The effect his influence has had has been absolutely seismic. I watched a recent film ("Annette") that was dedicated to him just the other day. I saw a picture of Mark Hammill wearing Edgar Allen Poe patterned socks as well. I can think of dozens of examples like this. Now, what I am curious about is - is Poe popular in Asia at all?

You either have The Gift or you do not.

The odds are pretty damn good just looking at the guy. Poe and Lovecraft are the backbone of modern Weird Horror; their influence is so expansive it is hard to imagine Western culture without the raven or the old Gods. Lovecraft's only handicap was being derivative, a trait which he found endearing. Poe had none such deficiencies or flaws. Don't get me started on Tolkien. I'm not even much of a fan and he is so monolithically important and basically wrote the playbook for modern fantasy. He's like a God of genre literature.

You're probably the guy who wrote the "stretch her legs" copypasta about Harry Potter/Rowling.

What is the topic/genre of your blog? Do your readers actively comment? Do you have a "fandom"? Do you have a Discord server or anything similar?

Preferably something I can't just find on YouTube. I spent a bunch of Audible credits and have a single one left. Looking for something epic, expansive and well-narrated.

Preferably something I can't just find on YouTube. I spent a bunch of Audible credits and have a single one left. Looking for something epic, expansive and well-narrated.

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OP, I live in an upscale suburb of Detroit that has about five of these in a local five block or so radius. Yuppies will drop some remarkable and expensive stuff in there, often.

My best advice is to not worry so much about the contents - find a friend who will make a box as well and get a bunch of them going around town. Add cool stuff as well like motion activated LEDs and such, perhaps a well-protected corkboard for locals to post on would be a smart move. Don't worry about the books; definitely pick up a bunch of, like, Dover Thrift Classics on Amazon just to get the ball rolling with some decent stuff. Magazines and lit journals are also awesome to see if relatively up to date. YMMV and keep us posted!

Purple prose can be done extremely well in the right hands. It's more about not even writing prose so much as it is a sort of hidden sense of verse or poetry. A proper show-man can be purple as Barney and use the flow of it to his advantage.

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His fiction is wonderful, especially his collection TEATRO GROTTESCO (which is dam near perfect).

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"The Lost Art of Twilight" is astounding IMO (and I really like the tale preceding it, "The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise: A Tale of Possession in Old Grosse Pointe". It took me longer than most to get into GRIMSCRIBE & SONGS - which he called his "Dostkevsky period" - and if it had as much thematic connective tissue throughout the collection as TEATRO does it would be a close race between the two.