/lit/ - Literature

>tfw morally committed to helping fellow seekers and love talking about this stuff but have almost finished book and don't want people pilfering my potpourri synthesis of the last 300 years of philosophy or my weird neologisms that I can't help using even though it's a 1/100000 chance I'm not just insane and a 1/1000000000000 chance that even if I'm not insane anyone would "pilfer" anything from me

>why aren't ppl including digital media, social media, the internet etc etc in novels

Yes people are, you just dont read any contemporary lit

Unless your art is your primary source of income you're not "living the artists life"

rise of individuality, and the fetishisation of the 'new,' mass consumer culture and the decline of artisans.

>the Twin Peaks of literature

okay, so first we have to define this. i am going to go with "subversive ironic melodrama" and suggest Gormenghast.

in terms of sombre prosaic america: Poe

if you're a dull literalist and thinking "lol le spooky forest town xDDDDDD" then just pick up a stephen king novel and have the time of your life.

if you aren't rewriting and revising, you aren't writing seriously

Youtube is not /lit/

Why do janitors allow this e-celeb shit ?

why is /lit/ so butthurt about DFW?

why would buddhists need to reconcile with hindu theology?

without the kingdom of heaven, or other such theological endgame, to where, or what, is the march of secular progress headed?

Honestly just studying raw academic history was the most emotionally dampening thing I ever did. Modern history eviscerates romanticism thoroughly, reducing man to his absurd rituals.

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What is this passion that requires you to spend thousands of dollars on an education, but isn't going to make you any money?

i know theres a bunch of you oldfags so did anyone here actually try to live the literary lifestyle? or did you pussy out and hide in your room daydreaming about a life you never lived?

Writers who ruined your life.

For me: Camus and Sartre