/lit/ - Literature

We’ve already seen how poetry was destroyed by the music industry; the most a poet today can hope for is be featured in a couple of obscure journals. Will the same happen to the novel?

Everything complex or unique about the novel as a medium has been totally discarded. Publishing houses have prioritised plot over characters as well as journalistic and bland prose over anything approaching a unique style. The novel is merely something to be adapted, whether that be for film or an audiobook, and anything that is not totally streamlined cannot be effectively adapted.

The last popular literary novel in my mind is probably Blood Meridian. However, I’d estimate that 95% of those who have read it do so for the violence and gore, and their analysis of the text doesn’t extend beyond “the judge was the devil”.

Take something like Harry Potter for example. There has been such a decline in reading rates that there could never be another phenomenon like that again. Unless there is some reading counterculture when society realises at how stupid gen alpha are, reading will continue to decline as a hobby. There will be no random breakout novels like “The Da Vinci Code” that captures the cultural zeitgeist because for one there is no shared popular culture anymore and, two, nobody reads anymore.

Has there been any /lit/ authors that got their start within a decade ago? Nope. If an author didn’t build up their readership before the internet kicked into gear they remain obscure.

Would anyone be interested in a literary magazine exclusively publishing works of high aesthetic merit, rejecting the School of Resentment's subordination of aesthetic merit to sociological concerns and political agendas?

I'm earnestly interested in starting one. I know that the world doesn't really need another literary magazine, but what I just described seems to be an unfilled niche in the market.

Let me know what you think and if you'd be interested in reading it.

Are there any good books coming out this year?

>get gf
>no longer have time to read for 5 hours after work
I thought I could have it all, what a fool I was.

I miss this canon defender.