/lit/ - Literature

>>8049329

>anti-war
>non-fiction

>>4735943
>What tragic events occurred in the first half of the twentieth century to seriously shake the optimism in progress and human nature
The rise of mass communication devices.
You had people in the past unironically writing of angelic beauty and the ever-ascending man when people were literally living in their own shit.

>>4728122

Nothing wrong with liking the Chinese cartoons but they are a very different medium and their style of dialogue is designed (and subsequently becomes cliche) in service of their own needs, which are not the same as the needs of other media.

>>4728115
>Tao Lin
>basically a really shitty writer

I seriously hope you don't believe this. You may not like his style, and you certainly may think that his chosen themes are vapid and bland, but in terms of technical writing ability almost all of his published work self-evidently reads exactly like he wants it to read. He is a good writer.