/lit/ - Literature

>>16913850

>>16894784
about 17 now. roughly 10 analytic and 7 creative.

DUNE seemed like a safe place to start.

what books or prizes would entice you more/the most? this has been a first swing at something like this; very eager to refine it for future competitions. let me know what would really get you to consider participating in something like this--either in terms of prompts or prizes.

>>16886770
where do the DC meetups usually occur?

>>16886797

>>16853929

>>16704531
the way the books are distributed across rooms/halls throughout my basement means that i don't have a single angle that could convey everything at once. i've been thinking of ways to display all in toto, but that's a big project and i haven't gotten around to it yet.
i have a private office/library i share with my wife, but that only has a small selection of books in it, more of a minimalist vibe.

>>16704555
thanks man

>>16704596
it depends on the day and what i'm reading. as i mentioned here >>16703480 i can spend a day on a couple of pages; i've also covered upwards of 450 pages of more consumable stuff in a single 24 hour period. i can also go an entire week without reading at times, read intensely for days and then take a break; at this point i dont have a schedule or anything like that, i read when i want or need to and see reading as part of a much more general matrix of "living well." i generally don't find quotas or page counts or anything like that very helpful.

>>16704599
man so many ideas here. my immediate reaction is to suggest some poetry that i don't see very often here: holderlin; wallace stevens; hart crane; rilke; mallarme; szymborska; celan; trakl; cassels; haines; larkin; hall; etc.
toomer--cane was very good, read that recently. didnt care for the new translation of de assis.
contemporary short story writers like jamie quatro; wells tower; carver; tobias wollf; o. henry; barthelme; cheever; l. moore; s. dybek; ken liu; etc.
playwrites like sarah kane, sam shepard. fan of david mamet. hardly ever even see beckett, artaud, etc. discussed. ionesco. E O'Neill.