/lit/ - Literature

>>22677045
>graffiti
>extreme
Niggers and spics are all into this all the time. It's practically their own urban art-form. More important, artists of his type are good at self promotion, especially so of their own minimalist tautologies.
>what did he do for a living
He was also good a managing other peoples money. Not in the sense of being an investor. Revolutionary movements have treasuries, and he knew his way around splitting a movement off from its original leaders, or infiltrating to the top others.
Also, French culture at the time took its writers very seriously. Supporting writers was seen as a worthy goal, and Debord also had a knack for collecting wealthy patrons.
And, shall we say, ahem, tossing patrons aside when such proved more useful.
What he showed is there is money to be made through cultural shenanigans if you are, you know, willing to put in the hard, ah, work.
To be fair, even he makes a distinction between mere employment, and hard work toward a goal.

>>22409507
Gore Vidal.
I'm not even pretending to be objective. Here is it in order of most to least of my enjoyment.
>United States: Essays 1952–1992
>The Judgment of Paris
>Messiah
>Creation
>Kalki
>Julian
>1876
>Dark Green, Bright Red
>A Search for the King
>Vidal In Venice
>Lincoln
>Duluth
>Death in the Fifth Position
>Death Before Bedtime
>Death Likes It Hot
>Burr
>Empire
>Two Sisters
>Live From Golgotha
>The Smithsonian Institution
>Hollywood
>The Season of Comfort
>In a Yellow Wood
>Williwaw
>Washington, D.C.
>The Golden Age

>The first job of a critic is to describe what he has read. This is a lot more difficult than one might suspect.

>>20864750
Because they're boring as a chloroform cocktail.
Also, they whine and moan about ebook piracy.

>>19554193
Gore Vidal.
It's his topical range and variety. From muder mysteries, to educational essays, whiplash wierd postmodern satire, compelling historical fiction, and some slice of life tales. And I'm still closing in on some of his last few works I've yet to read.

>>8405717
you mean pic related Gore Vidal? He's so wooden when he sits down you can't tell which is the chair. His gravelly voice, mechanical movements and offputting facial features mean he shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as the great Wilde.