/lit/ - Literature

Lolita
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Candide
Moby-Dick
Don Quixote
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Bleak House
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Finnegans Wake

What's a portal similar to lithub.com but without all the we-promote-poc-literature-regardless-of-their-quality shit?

What's a website for lit news that's not reddit tier?

i can't shake the feeling that this board is just toxic
a lot of self-congratulatory attitudes around
if you want to write, turn off the internet
if you want to talk about a book, well chances are you can't because people you know haven't read it, so..
feel affinity the old way, with the invisible thread between you and the author, which does exist if you feel an affinity, whether they're dead or not

those rare threads or comments you claim to find like gold sifted through dirt in the river
you could have found in any other more fruitful experience, with less strain on the eyes and soul
I have come to terms with my relation to the internet: as a substitute for human companionship, community, connection

it simply does not provide this, when it comes down to it, and only until I keep coming back enough times to prove this simple fact over and over to myself will I get the point and get on with the project of my life and not let it be poisoned by the plethora of strange egotistical battles I feel so easily swept into when I browse places like this

that there may have been some kind of community available to writers of the bygone era, via spontaneous congregations of the daily cafe patrons or some intentional weekly something or other, is still not of consequence -
the spirit will prevail against seemingly hopeless conditions such as "having no one to confide in"

If you haven't tried, have only yourself to confide in for once, for a long while, see how it feels, see what happens