/lit/ - Literature

>>18498226
This has been called the great gay novel, but I think it is an exercise in suffering and torturing the main character. Also, Mary Renault's Last of the Wine and the Persian Boy are fucking awesome, and probably the first mainstream gay-lit

>>18498230
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Donovan_(writer)

>>17068720
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.
It also made it onto /lit/'s top 100 chart this year.
>asexual schizo lawyer tries to live a normal life but can't because he's haunted by childhood trauma and refuses to talk about it so instead he just keeps fucking his miserable life up

All contemporary fiction is ba–

>>16845983
bad meme is bad. pic related is similar misery porn, and endlessly sad (but the author is a hack who plays with your emotions and doesnt understand the sublime of >>16846009 real sadness)

Read this.

I found this very entertaining. Any other good melodramatic potboilers?

why though