/lit/ - Literature

>>23314583
A Posthumous Confession by Marcellus Emants is right up your alley. If you liked the Tunnel then try Omensetter's Luck, also by Gass; Jethro, the priest, is the character that would appeal to you, though the focus only moves onto him later in the novel; I'd highly recommend anyway. Death on the Instalment Plan and Journey to the End of the Night by Celine. Anything by Houellebecq. Nausea by Sartre. (Bear in mind you'll have to accept the French angry, pathetic loners having sex, but given you included No Longer Human in your list I'm assuming that's fine.) A Man Asleep by Perec if you don't mind swapping apathy for anger (again, No Longer Human says you'll be fine with it).

And let's not forget my diary desu.

>>23214391
I used to contribute writing to &amp (pic rel in 014) before starting the best-of, and did a couple small (non-writing) things for Unreal. The list of pieces to include in the best-of was initially formed in part by going through old &amp release threads and finding the commentary on which pieces were well-liked, which incidentally led to a sort of historical picture of &amp. Then I got interested in the older /lit/ magazine projects and started digging up posts about them and mirroring some of the old project archives. So, this nominally being a thread about the history of /lit/, I stick around to regurgitate whatever details I've dragged out of the archives and old PDFs and dead websites. (There's also a lot of bullshitting in the threads, which I feel marginally helpful in pointing out.)

As shitty as these threads are, they do attract the occasional anon who doesn't realise these threads are only thinly-veiled drama and shill bait. On those occasions there's a chance for actual on-topic discussion, which I think is especially interesting when it's actually people from old projects who see their work mentioned and drop in.

I also browse the /lit/ archive for kicks sometimes (better than waiting for something good in the catalogue), which leads to interesting bits. Tonight I found a couple threads from August 2021 talking about what it would take to make a true /lit/ cultural scene (>>18798270 and >>18818893). Kinda the same stuff talked about now, but with less baggage. Second one was asking
>What is the 1920s Paris of the 2020s, in terms of literature and culture at large? Is there even such a place at all?
to which one guy said the Parisian bohemians did it out of a form of necessity while being considered weirdos at the time, and that
>4chan is the new Paris. The modern day bohemian probably has very little choice in how he lives, is probably far out of step with modern styles and tastes, and probably spends a lot of time seething about society. Now before you get too excited, you need to understand the most critical aspect of the 1920's Paris movement: we only really remember the good ones, but most of them were stupid. Statistically speaking, if you are reading this, you are not one of the profound, insightful "4chan bohemes" that may one day cause society to look back and wonder what exactly it was we were all doing that made us so cool. You are the greasy retard who is wasting his time before he finally grows up and comes to terms with his mediocrity.
(Other anons pointed him out as wrong in some respects, but hearing people articulate what they think is special about /lit/ is interesting/amusing.)

>>23214451
Thinly-veiled drama and shill bait.

(Nice timing on that one.)