/lit/ - Literature

It's not that I don't know that this is a troll thread, I'm just butt-exasperated over the fact that people people actually bought these books and took pictures of them, pictures that trolls are using to cause me intense rustling.

Furthermore, the fact that an industry exists to cater to these people's vapid preoccupation with books/literature....guh....

Hey guys, this is relevant:

McGurl calls it “lower-middle-class modernism”—is a means of reducing the risk of embarrassing oneself, and is one way that students from working-class backgrounds, like Carver (he was from Oregon, where his father was a sawmill worker), deal with the highbrow world of the academy.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/06/08/090608crat_atlarge_menand#ixzz2DfagBCcu

Makes perfect fuckin sense eh? Hide behind ambiguity so no one sees how shitty and stupid your writing is. Also, Generation X'ers use "irony" to shield themselves from being berated for the stupid fools and shitty writers they.

Heh.