/lit/ - Literature

>>20961412
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mr8WYkJ7kQ

>>16961765
>A Dictionary for the Oil and Gas Industry

>>16810952
I understand your system.
I simply choose not to follow it.

>But when you talk about Nabokov and Coover, you’re talking about real geniuses, the writers who weathered real shock and invented this stuff in contemporary fiction. But after the pioneers always come the crank-turners, the little gray people who take the machines others have built and just turn the crank, and little pellets of metafiction come out the other end. The crank-turners capitalize for a while on sheer fashion, and they get their plaudits and grants and buy their IRAs and retire to the Hamptons well out of range of the eventual blast radius. There are some interesting parallels between postmodern crank-turners and what’s happened since post-structural theory took off here in the U.S., why there’s such a big backlash against poststructuralism going on now. It’s the crank-turners’ fault. I think the crank-turner’s replaced the critic as the real angel of death as far as literary movements are concerned, now. You get some bona fide artists who come along and really divide by zero and weather some serious shit-storms of shock and ridicule in order to promulgate some really important ideas. Once they triumph, though, and their ideas become legitimate and accepted, the crank-turners and wannabes come running to the machine, and out pour the gray pellets, and now the whole thing’s become a hollow form, just another institution of fashion. Take a look at some of the critical-theory Ph.D. dissertations being written now. They’re like de Man and Foucault in the mouth of a dull child. Academia and commercial culture have some-how become these gigantic mechanisms of commodification that drain the weight and color out of even the most radical new advances. It’s a surreal inversion of the death-by-neglect that used to kill off prescient art. Now prescient art suffers death-by-acceptance. We love things to death, now. Then we retire to the Hamptons.

>>14386901
I'm a completionist when it comes to ol' Dave.

What went wrong during this interview?

150 p in to The Pale King
it's not hard to imagine this guy as the author

Has there ever been a more embarrassing interview in the history of television? I don't know how he can still live with himself having this interview up for everyone to see

>>7991477
better to stage the pictures yourself then have people judge you by things like interview clips

By hating on the Jews.

Last: A Fault in our Stars

Current: An Abundance of Katherines

Next: Paper Towns

Pic related.

Yum

>mfw I realize that my depression is stemming from me purposely making myself depressed so that I can suffer enough to have something to say in my book

Are you in London? If you are then I can come over and show you some really fun books; they're quite big though, they might not fit in your library.

So what exactly are the generic conventions of "new sincerity"?

>John Green
>Dave Eggers
>Jonathan Franzen
I'd kill myself too if this was my legacy