/lit/ - Literature

Would he browse /lit/ if he was still alive ?

>>4597107
>Implying he didn't pull mad pussy with that Tortured Genius image he had going on

>DFW be cry. DFW's momma no treat him right.

Alright, /Lit/. It's time for you earn your bread.

You do your pretentious, pedantic thing all day and that's cool. But now I need the help of the pseudo-intellectual community. So help a nigga (at least on the internet) out.

I've read Infinite Jest and Brief Interviews with Hideous men where should I go next?

P.S.

You see that white bandana? Gangster nigga. Wallace looking extra sharp, y'all pussy niggas couldn't fuck with him with a 10 foot dick. That's taking into account the 6 foot depth. You still have four feet to fuck with his post mortem self.

"He once asked his friend Jonathan Franzen if his only purpose on Earth is 'to put my penis in as many vaginas as possible.' "

Shit. What a misogynist prick.

>/trying/ to be sincere

:D

Hey everyone, I'm new to /lit/. I'm an avid reader (lately been on a John Green streak) and was wondering what you guys thought of David Foster Wallace. I just read The Broom of the System and only found it average. I'd much rather read The Fault in Our Stars. Is it even worth checking out any of Foster Wallace's other works?

Stop trolling me with this awful author.
He is just as bad of a writer as Ayn Rand; his work has just as much literary merit as Ayn

Rand's; his work inspires fanatical fans who have a very narrow view of the world just as

Ayn Rand's work does, and as such he ought to be banned. Just as Ayn Rand spent hundreds

upon hundreds of needless pages lavishing facile praises on Capitalism, David Foster Wallace

wastes just as much paper whining about Capitalism with his monotonous, juvenile so-called

'critique' of it. They are two sides of the same coin; they are just as bad as each other;

they are both 'cult of personality' authors that teenagers adore.
Like a Ayn Rand his shit will be ate up not because of the artistic or philosophical merit

of his work, but because he appeals to the prejudices of a very ignorant demographic.

Get this joke of an author off of my /lit/.

>rails against capitalism
>develops his own ideals
>hates television and most of the mainstream
>wears an unconventional do-rag
HIPSTER! HIPSTER! HIPSTER!! HIPSTER!!
Fuck him, right guys? Fuck that hipster.

Great essays?

Hard mode: Not by DFW

I like Walden, The Decay of Lying, and Shooting an Elephant.

The world of Letters has lost yet another fellow.

>Games Reporter Matt Hughes Passes Away In Apparent Suicide

http://updates.kotaku.com/post/34770869987/games-reporter-matt-hughes-passes-away-in-apparent

>>3057323

pardon for bad english:

when were you when fost die?

i was at phone drinking eyedrops when fred ring

"fost is die"

"no"

and you????????

>itt: lit inspired by 4chan posted on 4chan about 4chan

Top 5 writers who committed suicide

1. David Foster Wallace
2. Virginia Woolf
3. Yukio Mishima
4. Ernest Hemingway
5. ???

How can David Foster Wallace be exemplary of both postmodernism and 'new sincerity' at the same time?

Ask a semi-toothless Tucsonite who once gave DFW a blowjob anything.

Who are the best writers to learn writing from?

I've heard it's best to start reading realism instead of surrealism, fantasy or science fiction. Is that true?

>bought IJ for /lit/'s "Infinite Summer lite" last summer
>things came up which made me unable to participate
>haven't read it and it's still in my backlog

feelsbadman.jpeg
what have I've been doing with my time?!

Knock knock

Authors who are wrong about their own work.

>DFW thought Infinite Jest wasn't funny.

Top 5 writers who killed themselves.

1. David Foster Wallace
2. Virginia Woolf
3. Ernest Hemingway
4. Yukio Mishima
5.

>mfw The Tree of Life didn't win Best cinematography