/lit/ - Literature

me

>>3372794
r u havin a giggle there m8?

Going to a party. Gonna shit out 2k words later tonight.

Peace, /lit/.

>>2738291

make little towers of books all around your house

>>2436619
>DFW is a shit writer

>>2390483

He wanted to be a great artist, but his life was all about his disease and his own thoughts. What was David Foster Wallace's fiction other than stream of conciousness set down in superficially clever and quickly tiresom run-on sentences? Yes, in the final analysis, thousands of pages of "tics". If you read the critical reception carefully, he was not widely regarded a great novelest. He was a phenomoenon. Really, just a fad. What's wrong with drama, conflict, plot, resolution, character development, economy? Nothing. Those are good things.

Tolstoy traveled throughout Russia and Europe, raised a family, had a difficult marriage and was unfaithful, was in the Russian army, was a member of the Russian aristocracy he wound up lampooning late in life (after romanticizing them in War and Peace), and led a religious movement that got him excommunicated from the religion of his fathers. Tolstoy was well grounded, productive, organized, and he sucked the marrow out of life. He painted on a huge, multi-faceted canvas. Cormac McCarthy, you just know (though he won't talk aobut it), has lived and breathed, soaked in, the abused and vanishing Southwest wilderness and the rural peoples with capacity for extreme cruelty and inexplicable redemptive kindness he writes about so poetically and beautifully. What helped qualify Jonathan Littell to write his epic about the Holocaust and Nazi Germany? He worked for the international humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger, heading the agency’s mission in Chechnya, where he was a victim of an ambush and a colleague was kidnapped.

>1998
Started working on his sadly never fully completed work -- The Pale King.

>>2370643
Replica kind of reminded me of Dilla's Donuts, but imo it was nothing compared to his previous effort; Returnal.

>>2370650
What's the deal with Bon Iver, anyway? I seriously feel like I'm missing some integral piece of life's puzzle when I listen to that guy and feel nothing.

sup dudes

DFW's favourite books in order.

1.The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
2. The Stand - Stephen King
3. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
4. The Thin Red Line - James Jones
5. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
6. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
7. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
8. Fuzz - Ed McBain
9. Alligator - Shelley Katz
10. The Sum of All Fears - Tom Clancy

Discuss.

Not my favourite author by a long shot but a good photograph that I think captures his essence.

His essence being:

douchebag