/lit/ - Literature

How to bring the literary scene back to its former glory?

When I read poetry, I have no clue what is being said. Books to help me understand poetry?

Any books about how to make friends?

>>17617265
tfw this was an entire five years ago

>>17435035
Unnecessary cursing is not funny.

>Buy a "Used-Like New" book
>Comes in "Used-Acceptable" condition
Why do they do this frens?

>>17383418
NO
IT"S NOT TRUE

>>17360161
I'm studying to be lawyer, I just want to do my best to help NYSUT . . .

Any books about how to make frens?

How do I make frens

>Deleuze never wrote the Marx book
fuck bros

>English major
>After this semester I have one more semester left and I graduate
>No friends since high school
>No connections
>No work and internship experience
>Still can't drive
>No idea what I'm doing
>And the cherry on top: I am still a kv
>At least have no debt and can live with my mom for free tho she really wants me to get a job
I am so fucked. I don't know what to do.

I wish I had /lit/ frens

How do you cope with the fact that there is so much to read and you are left behind? I literally added 100 books of marxist theory, criticism, and historiography to my wishlist just this week and more books keep piling it's going to take me forever to read them. All my twitter frens are so well read and are able to bust out hot take after hot take and this makes me feel left behind.

Where can I find a cute commie /lit/ gf that loves poetry and wants to pratect her comrades?

Where can I get a /lit/ gf that likes retro anime? I am lonely frens.

Where can I get a cute /lit/ gf that likes retro anime? I am lonely frens.

>>16223108
All trannies are mentally ill. Just look at what they're doing to the software industry. Fuck them.

Where and how do I get a /lit/ gf that likes anime?

I am a 36 year old with a PhD in Philosophy. I am $450k in debt and currently working two minimum wage jobs in order to stay alive. I work alongside 18 year olds and whenever they ask about my background I just tell them I've been in prison for a long time, which is less embarrassing than admitting the truth. I am probably the most well-informed Husserl scholar on the North American continent, perhaps in the world. My 1,500 page biography of his life has been rejected several dozen times. No college will take me on since they don't think Husserl is relevant, and that other applicants are therefore pushed to the head of the line. I have had 6 Husserl-related papers published in different journals and philosophical quarterlies, but have earned no money or recognition for having done so. I just moved to Abbeville, Louisiana since there is a job opening at the university in Lafayette and I decided to go all out in order to get it. But I've just found out that my application was rejected and now I'm stuck working at a Wendy's three shifts a week and a Barnes & Noble the rest of the time. I have no wife, no children, and at this point no friends I'm willing to talk to due to the shameful nature of my existence. I'm glad there's a place online for people like me

>>14113622
no...

>>14032207
I struggle with the same thing, brother. Reading Tolstoy helps me though.
https://archive.org/details/completeworks09tols/

>21 year old loser kv
>no friends no connections living with mom
>majoring in english no plans with what to do with it I just like literature
>commute to school by train still dont have my license
>spend most of my days in bed shitposting, reading books, watching anime, and working out
>like walking and sitting around people and listening to their conversations being a sort of passionate spectator
>there is something in me that does not let me get close to people. whenever I get close to someone I want to drift away from them.
>not close with family and feel an immense aversion for my culture and tradition
>have trouble expressing and articulating myself through speech so just keep silent all the time.
>all this makes me very lonely
>constantly dream about various different things and being various people sometimes getting into states of megalomania dreaming and desiring things that are impossible and unattainable like abolishing reality
>this makes me more depressed and frustrated
>hate everything I write and express intensely seeing that I have no discernible talent for anything making me desire to die
literature that expresses this feeling

How do I balance being an unironic anarchist with the weird, capitalist feeling of needing to "succeed" (in the terms of our capitalist culture)? I help people whenever I am able for nothing but thanks (that I only joke about requiring because I honestly need some positive reinforcement in my life) and don't want anything in return. Honestly, I don't, but people often feed me which is always good. I help my mom's church despite being an atheist and feeling church is a vile place. I try not to mess anyone over and to my knowledge I haven't. I give what I can to others but I do have to watch my finances. I try to be a good person despite my flaws (laziness save when motivated, bad temper, bad people skills (yet others say I am endearing and charismatic which I honestly don't see), I complain a lot, allergies that stop me from partaking in some things, plus more).

Yet, I can't shake the idea that I'm supposed to get ahead at all costs. Like I'm supposed to be a sociopath to succeed. I look around me at a lot of the people I know who aren't well off or even bad off. They just are. They're good people. Then, I look at the people who succeed and see nothing but taking advantage of others, taking advantage of loopholes, etc. Those people "make it" whilst others don't. These people live well whilst others barely live at all.

For 28 years I've been myself but I look around and feel conflicted. Like I'm the person who was wrong. It's constantly in the back of my head.

What the fuck am I doing.