/lit/ - Literature

>"learn to deal with mundane office work, you wuss" said the famous author, before hanging himself.
yeah. good talk, coach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U7BukvTDPE

Which David Foster Wallace book should I start with?

What was his secret?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObqDKucH8Q

>Only just found out how "Goethe" is actually pronounced.

ITT: /lit/erary mistakes that make you wanna kys yourself


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yfcKdLQL1w

>>21589943
who the fuck names a boy "Foster"?

1 (one) book
He wrote one book
How can people hold him in such high regard and compare him to the greatest authors of all time when he wrote ONE book. 46 years on earth and he wrote ONE book.

>>20658520
Keep it to yourself

>>20427382
What you see is what you get

Don't like it, leave

>watch him speak on video
>feel deeply moved
>still can't get through Infinite Jest

Is there a word for this?

>>19207435
Is this OC?
If so, congrats. Best original poem I've seen on /lit/ in years - maybe, ever.

>>18880925
>>18880917
/lit/ Hivemind?

>>18785526
ngmi

okay so i pretty much spent the last decade being a post ironic retard as a personality and worshipping sam hyde
now i’m 27 and i’m just a bitter asshole and doesn’t take anything serious. like i think of society and reality as this one huge movie and everyone is actors playing a role in it and making all these decisions ironically
but yeah i have no idea how to be evenly remotely genuine anymore. i’m always just being a smart ass to ppl and lying to ppl just to see if ppl will actually fact check me and they never do
but now i’m stuck this way and i want out
i know david foster wallace talked about new sincerity but he hero’d himself
is there anything i can read as a moral compass to get me back on track?

For all his talk about love and sincerity or whatever, his writing was all brain and zero soul. His attempt at rewriting Karamazov lacks Dostoevsky's humanism