/lit/ - Literature

iggy pop (and sometimes the stooges)

he and david bowie literally wrote an album called "the idiot"

does anyone have information about an English translation of Soumission? was it released simultaneously, and can I find an ebook?

this thread is about publishing, not politics

>A poet since his university days, he wrote a well-regarded study of the American science-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft in 1991. At the age of thirty-six, he published his first novel, Whatever (1994), about the crushingly boring lives of two computer programmers. The novel attracted a cult following and inspired a group of fans to start Perpendiculaire, a magazine based on a movement they called “depressionism.” (Houellebecq, who accepted an honorary place on the masthead, says he “didn’t really understand their theory and, frankly, didn’t care.”)


BASED MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

Well he wanted it. He wanted the sex, drugs, rock'n'roll lifestyle; hanging out with the rockstars, and styling himself as the bad-boy outcast writer, the new Hunter Thompson for the Facebook generation, and he got it. I hope he enjoyed it too, because I doubt he can write for shit now.

Personally I love Platform.

"Every time I heard that a Palestinian terrorist, or a Palestinian child or a pregnant Palestinian woman, had been gunned down in the Gaza Strip, I felt a quiver of enthusiasm at the thought of one less Muslim"

Michel Houellebecq

picture with Iggy Pop should count as automatic quints in my opinion

dem cheekbones

what does /lit/ think of Michel Houellebecq?
i read his interview with paris review and immediately ordered one of his books from the library
here's the interview: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6040/the-art-of-fiction-no-206-michel-houellebecq