/lit/ - Literature

>>8667598

>Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles--the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral.Fuelled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident--the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins--he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.

holy kek

>>8369159
>>8369162
cringe

>tfw smoking hash right now

"Bill Murray, Pol Pot and Thommy Pinecone are playing foosball, right?"

>>7337641
>Thomas Pynchon
>the famous hipster novelist

>>7295509
>Warlock by Oakley Hall
Is this good?

the government is corrupt
and we're on so many drugs
with the radio on and the curtains drawn

we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
and the machine is bleeding to death

R A R E
A
R
E

>>7156272
well anon, that's begging the question

>>7111831
le first world problems: le thread

Torquato Tasso

le translation memepost

>>6405504
>anyone read it before?

>>5768413
>implying pinecone didn't ghostwrite it

>>5690622

>>5541695
how do you say his name Thomas Pinecone?