/lit/ - Literature

>>21611847
I have never seen a single good recommendation come from anywhere besides /lit/, except for Wittkop who I learned about from artist twitter, and even then I later found her on one of the /lit/'s infographs I'd saved.
Reddit doesn't give good recommendations because the site is designed to give advice on how to fix computers and get video game mods to work. Open questions and casual discussion collapse under the UI and the upvote system.
If you'd like to porve me wrong, name some of the good books reddit introduced you to.
for honesty's sake, here are the writers and books /lit/ made me aware of:
>Borges
>Invisible Cities
>Mishima
>Gene Wolfe
>Sarah Kane
>Fleur Jaeggy (who is obscure amd great)
>The Vorrh
>Lanark: a life in 4 novels
>The Flashman Papers
>The Screwtape Letters
>Perfume
>Stoner
>Confederacy of Dunces
>Ian Banks
>Bataille
>Maldoror
>Locus Solus
>A King Alone
>Oulipo
>Junger
>Blood Meridian
>Knut Hamsun
>Gaddis
>Gass
>The Dictionary of the Khazars
>Hard Rain Falling
and a whole bunch of others that are better known like Middlemarch

>>21430937
>dfw 278.jpg

>>20441425
Was it autism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqmIAbHXr0Y&ab_channel=MeganBoyle

>>19735427
>when it's that easy to write a prose poem
literally anyone can do it. i would post mine cos i believe myself better than this sop but really it just matters how accessible and easily read it is nowadays

>>19656762
Even my attempt to not engage in affectation is an affectation of superiority towards those who affect

>>18921757
>living the literature students life
https://youtu.be/tzAqf00sFII?t=154

I'm looking for books that feature a character who ruminates on suicide obsessively.

>>18733000

>>18540525
kek

>>18517610
>derailing the thread

She wasn't mentioned for 17 posts. This thread is hijacked.

Was there any writer in history that could be described as a rockstar?

mfw learned disguise

>>18086707
>'This guy,' he said. 'Woo.'
holy kek.

>>YOU AUTOMATICALLY TRANSLATE EVERYTHING THAT ISNT IN YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE ANYWAYS

>>17695374
>I think it would be pretty cool

I've recently fallen in love with non-fiction essay after reading a lot of DFW's essays. I was wondering what essays/essay collections /lit/ would recommend or if there was a recommendation chart for this topic.

>Catch 22
>The Trial
>Infinite Jest

>>17465298
I'd prefer not to give off that impression but I'm not going to post any differently. Sorry I offend your reasonable sensibilities to the core.

>>17411195
>still thinks the tragedy and comedy of Kafka are mutually exclusive experiences

>start to read infinite jest
>"hey this is actually pretty good"
>james incandenza's filmography

what the FUCK am i reading

is there a pseud wojack? preferably angry or crying. thanks

how can someone write this without laughing?
>There is not only the joyful but demanding task of reading and rereading his books, but also the far greater task of trying to work out how in a million years we might ever hope to absorb the magnificent advances and expansions Wallace offered to the form.