/lit/ - Literature

>>20251842
>>I really struggled with connecting to poetry.
>>to walk out perplexed
This is the type of person who calls anyone using 3+ syllable words pretentious and advocates for YA because it is more accessible and not ableist.
Burger literary education is dogshit.

>>20217847

>Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. Grove/Atlantic published his novel The Sympathizer in 2015 (winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize), and will publish his short story collection The Refugees in 2017.

>>20101216
don't blame them, blame their woke teachers and then blame the professors who taught their teachers.

>>12949497
>Bret Easton Ellis may be the closest thing America has to a "man of letters" in 2019.
You must not read very much.

>>12708345
Really, it comes down to preference. Cervantes wrote richer characters and stories, but Shakespeare was stronger in terms of technical elements and prosody. Trying to elevate one over the other is pseud-tier.

>Harold Bloom a 77-year-old Humanities professor for Yale, showed up at last year’s conference in a shirt that read “I Haven’t Read Harry Potter.” He told me that his first reaction upon trying to read it was “Fuck that. Fuck that noise. Like, what the fuck? No no no no no no no no no. Like, no no no no no.” Pause. “No.”