/lit/ - Literature

How do I market myself as a reclusive author?

Obviously no social media, interviews, or public events. But what else? How do I get it out there that I’m reclusive author?

What's his best work and why is it either Mason & Dixon or Against the Day?

Will he ever write a good book again?

>>15501371
Seriously?

>72 posts
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where do i start with Pynchon?

>>14554382
>I fucking love novels
190+ IQ

>>14288329
They.

>said nooo i come up to find out i says then lucy who comes in wearing this big fake grin, posing as an actress, waddling in her corset darling looking a phenomenal fright and comes up to say "how are you doing?" in best cary grant transatlantic accent folding out onto my shoulders drunk, smelling of cigarette tobacco and here i am in a blue party in black party suit why its practically the seventies Diane he says, fillying about the whole suite at a time when vegetables become sour and rotten and everyone is staring at her which means theure occasionally staring at me and then back at her and i know they all feel awful sorry for little old me and everyones thinking who invited her it oh wasnt me it wasnt me either well then who was it they say back and a deck of cards were brought out where the hostess suggests a poker game to save the night and the very same cary yes cary grant in "feminine" attire come cartwheeling over to the dinner table where freshly opened poker chips are being arranged and divided amongst the guests while they desperately try to make groovy conversation to keep the festivities up

I’m about 200 pages into Mason & Dixon, I’ve read two Pynchon books before this one and M&D’s tone shocked me. He takes a much more sincere turn with this book, there’s only been one slightly vulgar reference to sex so far, everything else has been very beautiful, even spiritual at times. You can really tell that he wanted to write a deep novel with this one, but it still maintains the Pynchon sense of humor throughout without spoiling any of the more serene bits. His handling of relationships, love, mysticism, sympathy, and much others are really mature and intelligent in M&D. It’s by far my favorite book by Pynchon

Are maximalist writers simply just suffering from hypergraphia, where their writing is less a form of artistic expression and more of a manifestation of mania? At university, my english professors did not appreciate my long sentences, even despite that they were (by their own admission) grammatically correct. When I write or speak, I'm either completely vacuous or possessed by an intense desire to articulate intricate ideas, as though I am not myself. I wonder if this sort of thing is common amongst writers, especially those whose writing seems convoluted/unnecessarily complex.

Thoughts?

>yfw his final masterpiece giganovel has Epstein as a major part of it

he says pynchon had mayor influence on him
so I guess DFW

Which author has the most punchable face?

I know this has probably been asked a million times but where should I start with Pynchon? The consensus seems to be either TCOL49 or V. I just want to know which to read first to get the most out of the other.

>>13029560
Based

>>12694311
*it's another barbershop tune*

>yes it is

Why do some authors publish books yet act like fame is the most horrific thing in the world?
Why not write books and keep them yourselves then? Why get it out there in public?

What more do they want? She asks this seriously, as if there's a real conversion factor between information and lives. Well, strange to say, there is. Written down in the Manual, on file at the War Department. Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as a spectacle, as a diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets. Organic markets, carefully styled "black" by the professionals, spring up everywhere. Scrip, Sterling, Reichsmarks, continue to move, severe as classical ballet, inside their antiseptic marble chambers. But out here, down here among the people, the truer currencies come into being. So, Jews are negotiable. Every bit as negotiable as cigarettes, cunt, or Hersey bars

*sits on a whoopie cushion*
*farts*
You can count me in
*opens a fake can of peanut brittle*

Woah boy are you gonna love this guy. Every book he’s wrote contains at least 2 of those attributes you mentioned

I don’t really believe that the mbti test or IQ test are precise approximations of personality or intelligence, but they’re fun and are very roughly correct