/lit/ - Literature

I am horrendously drunk right now. Pretty close to black out if I’m not already. AMA

>>19646576
>and not much superfluous fat or dumb agendas like LGBT.
>not much
The state of /lit/

>>19282044
>wears a padded bike jacket to appear more masculine
I hope all this non binary shit blows over soon

>>18285005
I have been sentenced to be exposed before my peers.

> Smerdyakov

why is it that when I fall asleep with a good book, I desperately want to stay awake just to get one more page and succumb to the dark with the compromise that I'll read more when I wake up, but when I wake up I have no interest in continuing?

I exclusively read children's literature.

I am a thirty-year-old pathetic manchild virgin who has no friends and has never even been in a romantic relationship.

Are there literally any novels related to this?

I'm Thinking of Ending Things was a good read.

What are good realistic goals for daily pages read and time spent reading? Would something like 20 pages in an hour a day be reasonable?
What should a beginner in reading strive for regarding these?

>"Back in 1992, the big University of Chicago survey reported that 20 percent of women in their late 20s had tried anal sex; in 2012, the NSSHB found a rate twice that."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/

Statistically speaking, shouldn't more modern-day novels include anal sex scenes?

If 40% of 25-30 year old women have had anal sex, this suggests it is now a societal norm.

What's the point of poetry when music exists?

any books on how fucked the media is and how we would go about destroying it?

Whats your process for choosing a new book to read? Do you just pick a random book of the shelf?

Why niggers why niggers be like you know like they smoke weed and rob store and be monkey why can’t niggers be normal?

I would migrate my philosophy and political theory threads to /his/ if people there weren't so retarded

>tfw everybody, including myself, is this same being, awareness, in different situations
books for this feel?

You're not a christian. You're not a muslim. Not a pagan, not a mystic, hermetic, hinduist, buddhist etc etc
You're a larping faggot on the internet. Snap out of it.

how do we fix the smartphone and social media digital disease problem? (4chan and reddit included)

So I'm sitting here reading another rejection letter, and I have to consider, we male writers spend way too much of our lives pandering to the white woman. I've often thought there is such thing as "the critically acclaimed story." You see it occasionally in certain highbrow magazines and journals. Astringent, observed, clipped, wallowing in its own middle-style prose and private ennui, porn for certain publications. And I knew from early on how to write the kind of story that would get published. Honestly, had I followed that formula (or style?) if I pandered to a cultural tone set by white women, particular older white female critics, I would have had 10 stories published by now. There's an award that I have been a finalist for, more than once, and in both situations I was the only person who knew that I wouldn't win. I looked at the winner and I look at the judges and both followed exactly the same aesthetic. And they were both cunt bitches as well. I knew right there, what they were looking for in a book and I knew the winner fulfilled it with flying colours, even if it wasn't that great a book. The last contest I wrote in the initial favourite was yet again, "bored suburban white woman in the middle of ennui, experiences keenly observed epiphany." And though we'll never admit it, every male writer knows that they stand a higher chance of getting published if they write this kind of story. We just do.

his face glowed color with emotion

How's that booking going?

What can you tell me about open individualism? What texts elaborate on this idea?

>>11017216
>Characters that fall in love start off disliking each other

>Everybody has a book inside them, a story to tell.