/lit/ - Literature

>>23150660
repostan
>Searches for copies of the original texts proved difficult due to Amazon's 2031 purge of its lowest-selling titles.
>One Australian library claimed to have a copy of a Woolston title in their "lo-fi prose" section, but the lo-fi print was found to have smudged off the lo-fi pages when the book was opened.
>A generous donation from the Gardner Family Foundation gave us access to all 217 novels from the F. Gardner "Call" series
>however we soon discovered that from book 15 onwards, all of the pages were blank.
>When asked about this a Gardner Family Foundation representative said "none of us thought to read them."
>As such, our work has focused primarily on secondary sources, including the print collection of Warosu.org stored in the Library of Congress Marcus Poole Heritage Building, and the public criminal offense records of some of the foundational members.
>Due to a lack of records in any publishing archives, and of actual books, we became suspicious that the so-called "/lit/ renaissance" had in fact been an elaborate hoax.
>But a discovery of all 18 issues of &amp magazine restored our belief that some members of this movement could be considered, in fact, literate.

except
>&amp 019 really did release
>tfw it sucked
May history be merciful and forget it ever happened.

>>23150705
Magazines are here, but check the archives for older mega links of the other collabs:
https://mega.nz/folder/2gsHSSbA#Sl46P4LljGlk9mnpAf3Mlw