/lit/ - Literature

>main character is a middle-aged writer or professor who sleeps with college-aged women

>>11707910

>the protagonist stands alone outside smoking

>the author tells us a specific band or song the protagonist is listening to

>the protagonist is cynical in the most basic ways

>>11653561

>mom found the manuscript of the new sincerity novella

My second time in a book store.

>big chain store, but in trendy part of town
>built-in Starbucks on second floor
>shuffling through fiction/lit section, trying to find a "classic" to read
>young girl employee approaches me
>"Hey, can I help you find anything?"
>"uhh, yeah, um. Do you have Count of Monte Crisco?"
>crisco
>She chuckles and says, "Yeah, let me see."
>She takes one step closer to me and we both face the shelf.
>the book was literally right in front of me when I asked her.
>thank her awkwardly
>she walks away
>I leave the store, never to return to a chain store or talk to a woman again
>go down the street to an indie used book store
>only faggots there so I'm safe

>>11494290

Yfw you learn that the answer is both.