/lit/ - Literature

What have the minorities contributed to our great art and culture?

>decide to look up A Song of Ice and Fire on amazon to see what the big fuss is about
>like $20 for the first 4 books
>"well if its that cheap paperback then the kindle/android ones should be even cheaper
>both are $30+ for the digital versions

can someone explain this shit to me

"for as long as you live you are immortal"

-me

What is the best pre-1900s novel?

Are male better writers than women, on average?
Considering the top tier male authors vs top tier female authors.

Just wondering what women are comparable to Shakespeare, Goethe, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Joyce, Proust, etc....

They've been liberated for quite some time now...you'd think there would be a female Shakespeare at least...go figure

Does this sentence need a question mark at the end, despite this other little sentence attached to it?

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/writing-advice-from-historys-fastest-most-p
rolific-authors/247913/#slide5

>Yesterday marked the kickoff of National Novel-Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo), the online project that challenges participants to write a 50,000-word book in the 30 days of November.

Who else is doing this?

Also, writing advice if you follow the link