/lit/ - Literature

>>10725905
>citing evidence means ur an autist...........

>>10148742
>Liberals are smarter than me and I feel threatened by them so blame everything on them: the post
Wtg, smart guy! Two thumbs up!

t. living in a red state

Why is The Will Be Blood receiving some love here? I watched it yesterday and I wasn't impressed.
To contribute:
I don't watch lots of movies, but if I ever developed a list of my favourite movies, In Bruges and The Machinist would probably be on top. Worth mentioning Risky Business, Breakfast Club and The Fire Within, but I know these aren't very good movies.

Some of /lit/ is similar to what you mentioned, and there are others on /lit/ who actually read and write.
It's not very nice to generalize, but it seems like a lot of people on /lit/ try to act like they are above others just because they don't read the same books as others, which is false fundamentally.
From my experience, if made a thread requesting something or asking for an opinion, only 1 in 5-6 would be serious answers as the others 5-6 believe that they are above your thread and they consider you a 'pleb'. Ignore the idiots and just look at those who are actually helpful and build their opinions from their own analysis and experience.

>>3986351
Yes, exactly.
Every month there's the same thread where someone says that he'd like to live in a world similar to Brave New World's, and then someone calls him an edgy teen because the world discussed lacks meaning and humanity.
I personally think such threads appear because work and sex are very accessible in the world of Aldous and that's what a lot of people are missing today.

Virginia Woolf
Marguerite Yourcenar
Clarice Lispector

>>3701291
>You'd be expected to have a degree in politics, english or something like that.

I really, really wish that was the case in the U.S. The journalism program I'm in is just a bunch of kids who have no idea what they're talking about it, unless they happen to be doing a minor.

There's also a lot of self-righteous back-patting about the nobility of the job and "right to know" bullshit. It makes me sick -haven't these people ever read Pynchon?
>knowing

I'm reading Of Grammatology right now, and I can honestly say I don't really get it. This is my first Derrida. Help.

>http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction/

>that reader's list
>Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard in the top 5

I mean, what the fuck.

I just finished the first draft of the first story that I've ever actively tried to write. That feel, man.

How about a first works thread? Was was the first story you ever wrote /lit/?