/lit/ - Literature

Did alt lit have any merit?

Whale

>>11586422
Lmao.

>>11586412
I hated this passage, seemed to be ripping off One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

>>10321026
And, yet, you can't get published.

>>10286674

I have nothing but a complete lack of surprise that Collected Tweets was a pathetic, abysmal failure of a book, and I have nothing but scorn and contemptuous laughter for the morons who have been supporting Tao Lin for years with patronage. Laziness and lack of organisation will ALWAYS shine through, in the end.

Tao Lin has based his entire schtick around "humorous irony" but this time, when he himself was put to the test ("can YOU make a good book, with all your supposed knowledge about it?") his true colors shone through for all to see. I knew it would happen, of course. I knew it from the first time I decided to bite the proverbial bullet and attempt to read Tai Pei.

Hopefully as a direct result of this, one or more of the members of Tao Lin's entourage will realise that they are, and have been, nothing but an abhorrent failure "half-assing it" through life, and put an end to it. Their life, that is. Now THAT I would give patronage to.

Make your suicides happen, Tao and Mira. It's the only chance at redemption you all have.

Tao Lin is the living embodiment of the smug, detached Gen-X ethos.

I'd venture to guess he has never felt a single sincere conviction about anything since childhood. He exist as a polyp upon the colon of culture, satiating themselves on the perceived failures of others (i.e. "The Man") while adding nothing new to the discourse aside from ironic complaint.

He's an insecure, lost, rapidly aging burnout who silently believes he could do a better job of making art than the professionals in the industry. Yet he lacks the ambition and ability to actually enter into the academia that he is so obviously obsessed with. He chooses instead to fuck around and make "new age" tweet collections well into middle age.

He is an awful, awful person. I've met thousands just like him, and the last thing we need is for him to gain any attention for his navel gazing.

Please, /lit/, do not aspire to become anything like him. His is a lonely road leading to depression and a life devoid of real purpose.

I hope he disappears and his disaffected followers stop subsidizing his lifestyle. Perhaps that would force him to do something productive with himself.

This man... In my country he is everybody

this man... in my country he is everything.

I wonder who could be behind this thread?

>>6988963
>does any of that make sense?

>gravity's rainbow
>infinite jest
>ulysses
>foucault reader
>European History

>>6875227
top kek. He always said a carcrash was the most absurd death.

>>6875119
>I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The Oxycontin store, and p-please step on it."

>mfw when I make every one of these threads

The e/lit/ist marketer

>>6538049

>>6505966
Do you guys think in 100 years people will laugh at the comments Thomas Pynchon left on pornhub videos or Tao Lin left on r/gonewild?

Why doesn't /lit/ discuss Tao Lin anymore?

rare Tao general

>>6358272

"/lit/ was a mistake" Tao Lin

>tfw you're the only person beside the author who understands the book