/lit/ - Literature

>>12724322

>'''Unless a writer can relate to /my/ experience it's not worth reading''

Do you think the majority of writers can relate to the experience of a mid-twenties Bhutanese tennis board lurker? You shouldn't only read things which you can relate to yourself, you should also read things which speak to an experience different than yours.

>>12707544

this

it's more accurate to say whiteness is just anti-blackness

>>12694578

>You are aware that prostitutes also sell companionship and not just physical sex?

this

Sex workers often end up being therapists for lonely men who can't open up to their actual friends or families. I've even heard of incidents were the client has just sat and talked about their feelings without actually having sex

>>12680291

This

if Hamsun didnt write in English how come his book titles are in English?

>Hunger
>Growth of the Soil
>On Overgrown Paths

>>12679768

Waugh and Greene are both pretty big in the UK, I had to read Brighton Rock in school

>>12655240

He wrote it piecemeal over the course of 13 years

>>8720414
See ya. Good luck with /flit/bro, he must be a handful.