/lit/ - Literature

what's a good resource for learning a new language while I'm still in the insecure state before trying to use it conversationally with native speakers? websites/software recommendations, books, tapes, or something else?

Is Crying of Lot 49 considered Pinecone Lite? Read it a few months ago and Gravity's Rainbow is in the mail, and wondering what I'm getting myself into.

>>7235198
lel, that gives me a good idea of the story. Thanks for letting me not click the clickbait

Hey fab,
I'm starting a novel as a side project. Specifically wanting to know some practical methods you've used to organize your writing. Do you store multiple word docs, one for each chapter, or put them all into one doc? What about getting feedback on partial drafts and incorporating other people's edits into something you may have changed from the time you gave them the draft to the time they gave it back to you?

Also novel writing general

>>7180209
"Tlon, Ubqar, Orbis Tertius" is the bombest short story I think I've ever read. "The Bet" by Chekhov is a good one too, though rather simple.

>>7053609
In that case I'd agree with you, although I think you are taking a broader definition of "political" than what that word actually means. "Cultural" and "societal", which are things that produce and are informed by politics, get closer. But if you keep coming up with examples and counterexamples you'll find that (not to get sappy or anything...) what you're really referring to is "humanity", not "politics". Humans are social by nature, and therefore form societies (lots to say about the unique evolution of our brains to enable that capability) to continue and enhance our survival. Societies breed different types of culture, and indeed, politics.

Art explores the human condition, and to make the blanket statement "nothing is aplolitical" is, while not demonstrably wrong, irrelevant.