/lit/ - Literature

>start a community book club, all the members are chicks, fags and self-identified marxists
>join a writing class, no one knows how to read, everyone writing YA trash
>join a classic lit book club on meetup.org, all the members are 50+ years old

How the actual FUCK do you find decent literary friends?

I read about Tolkein’s group The Inklings and can’t help but feel jealous about the serious literary community of bros he cultuvated. Outside of university, it feels near impossible to find something like this.