/lit/ - Literature

>>4848534
> I hate working and I've never even worked, unless school is a rough equivalent to how it feels.

>genre fiction

ITT: words that make you stop reading.

I start:
>trembling

>>4464713
Translation: ugh irony muh feels y cant we millenials be sincere with eachother guise?

Rest of writers of the History, are you even trying it?

>>3952356
/lit/ doesn't need a democracy. They need a philosopher king.

>>3921680
Well, I'm having trouble parsing your question

What's your favorite DFW book/story collection (Infinite Jest doesn't count). I'm halfway through Consider the Lobster and loving it.

DFW reaction image thread?

I'm about to read The Broom of the System, what did you think of it?

DFW.

Yes, all just these three letters

Can we talk about this man's works other than Infinite Jest?
Personally I Consider The Lobster to be his best one.

>>2891392
dalai lama is a double nigger

>implying you will ever secede from China
>implying you are not the biggest joke of international diplomacy

>>2819165
>wants humans to rise above their base instincts

>>2719182
David Foster Wallace
Post-post-modernist
Wrote 1000+ page novel, Infinite Jest
Hung himself due to massive case of feel
/lit/'s god for now and ever

>>2659826
>spent whole life writing about the poison of irony
>strived to express self as sincerely and clearly as possible
>as result made some of the most deeply moving work of his, or any generation
>all style no substance
>mfw

Alright so I'm trying to decide what book to read next. My choices are:

1. Crime and Punishment
2. The Trial
3. Fight Club
4. The Corrections
5. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Thoughts?

>>2469649
Fuck forgot the image

>>2373377
>that feel when he killed himself because he couldn't.

A message to everyone:
I am DFW and I am back from the dead. I thought I'd post on /lit/ since you faggots love talking about me.

A message to the haters: "You don't have to like a person to learn something from them" -Me

I'll be making a tripcode soon.

>mfw I majored in English Lit and have already worked as an editor and now a private teacher ($60/hour)

>mfw I'm now in law school and STILL banking cash from my English degree (teaching rich kids how to read and write)

Teach. Not many people find literature easy or exciting. If you can get your students excited in course material and teach them how to write persuasively and concisely, you can make so much money.

Is Infinite Jest worth it? My package with it just came and it turned out to be 1000-pagers with another 100 of post notes, so I guess thats something you're supposed to read, reread, research and devote your life to.

Let's say you took this poem, but wrote it in a normal scheme instead of adding in line breaks. Would it be flash fiction or poetry?

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/08/25/poem-episode/

>/v/ - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
>/mu/ - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
>/lit/ - Infinite Jest

Would you agree with this, /lit/?