/lit/ - Literature

more like serpinski CASKET lmao

is there such a thing as "lit bro culture" and if so, is DFW part of the problem?

It is pretty addicting. Stopped going on 4chan altogether as well as the other regular distractions while I was reading it. It consumes you.

WHY DID HE KILL HIMSELF?

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You can live under a rock all you want my man, but the world will always be moving on and growing, with or without you.
This goes for everyone who really believes that earlier literature was more sincere than contemporary literature is.

It never was. You just like to go the easier route and have other people tell you with certainty what's good and what isn't. When in fact neither you nor those people are actually capable of reading an earlier work of literature from the shoes of its contemporary, and therefore can't even properly consume it as a work of art, but rather just as historical evidence.

Hey /lit/, I'm doing some research with the collections of DFW's papers next week. Anyone got any questions you want me to look for answers to among things like his letters, manuscript drafts, etc? Probably can't take photos, but will look for some interesting material to type up and post that isn't anywhere else.

I said in another thread that BEE is butthurt about how revered dfw is while he is a 90's relic.
But you dismissed me!

Oh yeah, he is also gets mad that david foster Wallace is more revered than him since they both came up in the same age as each other but people like him more.

Who is the David Foster Wallace of other boards?
/k/'s? /a/'s? /co/s? /sp/s? /v/'s? /mu/'s? /fit/'s? etc.?

What exactly is New Sincerity and who are some examples from it? This quote from DFW--

>The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue.

--Doesn't seem to apply to Infinite Jest at all

Are there any simple ways to supplement/bolster my vocabulary to DFW levels??

I personally think this guy is mediocre. But yet I will give this article as a present for you faggots who like him:

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/01/16/turbulent-genius-david-foster-wallace-297688.html