/lit/ - Literature

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They are like the NIRVANA / Joy Division T-shirt core of our generation.

Is there a comprehensive list or chart about books about books? whether fictional stories about lost books or dead writers, to non-fiction about the influence or lack there of books. Writers, readers, the book as an object etc. feel free to recommend some.

Wow I had no idea!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeOHqI9SqOI

If waking up at 3pm every day without regret were an art, then Jasper Holiday was a first rate forger at the height of his career in his prime of sleeping technique, wasting no stroke, whether he was painting the day away by reading comics or jerking it to his non-existent younger sister.

>Recipient of the 2015 National Poetry Society competition from poetrysociety.org.uk

O, Great Northern Mall, you dwindling oracle
of upstate New York, your colossal lot

of frost-heaved spaces so vacant I could cut
straight through while blinking and keep my eyes

shut, I’ve come like the flies that give up the ghost
at the papered fronts of your defunct stores,

through the food court where napkins, unused
to touch, are packed too tight to be dispensed,

past the pimpled kid manning the register
who stares at the buttons and wipes his palms.

If I press my eyes until checkers rise
from the dark – that’s how the overheads glower

in home essentials as I roam through Sears,
seeking assistance. I know you’re here.

For this window crank I brought, you show me
a muted wall of TVs where Jeff Goldblum

picks his way through the splintered remains
of a dinosaur crate. There must be fifty

of him, hunching over mud to inspect
the three-toed prints. I almost didn’t

come in here at all, driving the opposite
of victory laps, and waiting as I hoped

for the red to leave my eyes, but my urgency
smacked of your nothingness. I did it again –

I screamed at the woman I love, and in front
of our one-year-old, who covered his ears.

What does your reading stamina look like? I am reading three different books and sadly I can only manage to read 30 pages in total, then take a break and start again whenever. I'm working on making it better.