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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jRXhmKPoM4
how was Gaddis so cool, bros....

William Gaddis edition

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Who was the best writer of the second half of the twentieth century, and why is it pic related?

All of his books are total kino, he speaks to themes of cybernetics, religion, death of art, capitalism, and has a working understanding of western intellectual history that he can make prosaic. His shit is all fun to read, and prose own. Can he be beat?

William Gaddis was born exactly 100 years ago (29th of December 1922)

What authors give the most interesting, enjoyable interviews?

>>18043220

>>14905439
>tho

>he goes on /lit/ only to express his hatred of [identity group]
books for this feel?

have you ever considered how stupid the phrase "retroactively refuted" really is?

A few months ago I started a group composed of the most talented writers on /lit/, and we are now seeking to expand. I want to curate this group such that its members, who are already great, become even greater owing to the quality intellectual and aesthetic discourse, not to mention honest and reliable critique, afforded by a closed community of the best and brightest.

Why should you join this group? What qualifies me to lead it? If you're accepted you'll surely find out more about me, but in brief: I am a published writer of some repute among circles interested in formally experimental, avant-garde literature, and, though not famous, have many connections in the publishing industry and in academia. I also offer you my services as a critic, editor, and confidant, as I call upon everyone else in the group to do the same.

If you are interested in being a part of this community, please reply with a writing sample, with a way to contact you outside of this board. If you are uncomfortable leaving your real contact details you could make a throwaway email or IM account, and if you are accepted someone will get in touch with you.

the phenotype

Which should I read first, The Recognitions or JR?

Stop being inauthentik.

Which is harder, The Recognitions or JR?
What makes The Recognitions hard?

Is this guy just a /lit/ meme?
I can’t find any of his books in any book store. New or used.

>>10815714
What is the appeal of Gaddis?

>seated, contra bonos mores, coram vobis, coram Deo, Gaddis reclines, tilt to the failing light burrowed ἐσόπτρου ἐν αἰνίγματι from the fount of warmth cold and distant beyond the reach of man
>Orders a glass of Chicha de jora,
>signs himself the cross, a pregnant symbol who's roots lie pagan and heretic in the heart of coptic egypt
>doesn't receive drink, they don't have it
>"tempus edax rerum"
>drums his fingers on the cracked and splintered wood and turns to you
>"Things worth writing about? Deo volente."
>he turns and leaves

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>>9796255
Whats even sadder is that JR was literally written for Altman.
>What do you think of Robert Altman? The way he makes movies is fairly similar to the way you do your novels.

>Gaddis: You’re right. Nashville fascinated me. At the time I was working on J.R and had this idea that maybe Robert Altman would come across my book and make a movie of it; he could do it.

>he unironically reads C*rnegie in 2017