/lit/ - Literature

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzEO0qFFzwI

Listen to that. It's good stuff. [It appears as a slightly expanded essay in Consider the Lobster.] Then read more Kafka.

I disagree with the premise of your question. Pic related.

Foreign epigrams are pretentious shit.

>Oh look at me, I can google a quote and put it at the front of my book. Oooh, I know, I'll name my books after a quote from shakespeare.

Fucking poseurs.

>>2371282
Every day is DFW day!

>>2297442

I don't think it conveys a damn thing - it's all surface and showing off and "LOOK AT MY FOOTNOTES LOOK AT THEM I'M SO ORIGINAL AND POMO JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE WHO HAS USED THIS TECHNIQUE".

If you're expecting life-changing insights, you will be disappointed, I think. Even the faggots on this board who ride DFW's dead dick will be hard pressed to tell you how it changed anything, influenced anything, or had one iota of relevance to anything at all.

>>2115681

If you haven't heard of any of the writers in the OP then you should probably GTFO of a /lit/ board

If you have heard of all the writers in the OP then you should prolly GTFO of IRL. Pic related.

Goodnight, children.

>>2102714

He wasn't poor.

>>1899449

>You foreigners think Herman Melville is best American author?

Nope. (And you missed a definite article in there, bwana - you sure you're an americunt?).

Anyway, pic related.

Hey guys check out this picture of Thomas Pynchon I found.

>>1451580
A relevant post? This must be a rule violation!

I don't care how people read. I just hope they read worthwhile works.

Just keep print available, and we're cool.