/lit/ - Literature

>maybe I get a temporary boost but it always resets

Yeah no shit faggot, the rest is up to you to have self-discipline and practice the things you learn in real life so they become second nature. Maybe read one on routine setting.

How To Win Friends is actually easy to implement and works really well if you have any social skills whatsoever, so maybe one on improving those as well.

>>11448029

>>11168940
I was influenced by Manuel Puig for those chapters, I don't expect my American audience (obnoxious, low IQ, ugly, but good people) to understand

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self

Is DFW really all that celebrated in the grander scheme, or is his ubiquity unique to /lit/?

Writers with an interesting and unique writing method and process.
Mine goes for Joyce if the rumour is true: he wore a white coat and wrote Finnegans on pieces of carboard w/crayons.
>inb4 desu

Post books dealing with anxiety like pic-related did.

ITT: footfag authors
>pic related is

>>10682122
Is this sincere?

This thread is great, good job OP

And but so what happened?

>>10681623
literally nothing wrong with this

He was a living example of
>maybe I'm so cool I just wanna die

>>10014957

>>8896452
There is no way to read Infinite Jest like that. It's too big. Creases and wear are going to happen.

>>8837932
>misusing the term 'Kafkaesque'
every time

>>8831431
howling fantods

>>8830344
that old numale? steal. anything. from me? I don't fucking think so pops. you're going down. now...

what is this look trying to convey?

>>8826507
Idk, it's up to you. You'll never be allowed to opine on the book though because you tapped out early like a pussy

p.s. the footnotes get longer.

So he basically predicted a Trump-like president with the character of Johnny Gentle? Damn... What's next a covert psy-op war with Canada?

I'M WRITER

>>8461453

>>8454855
>buy
>books

If they are already my property, why should I buy them?