/lit/ - Literature

>>21952640
Kek, Ligotti lived a successful by all means you fucking retard

>He was born in upper middle class family in Detroit which served as a perfect muse for a weird fiction author
>Got a life long literary job in a publishing house.
>Man is one of these most critically acclaimed living author in fiction.
>He is one of 3 living american authors who got published by Penguin Classics alongside Pynchon and Delillo.
>Collaborated with Current93 and even released an album.
>Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement

>Neddal Ayad: Have you ever written anything that you consider too dark or too heavy to publish?

>Thomas Ligotti: No, but I’ve conceived of stories that were just too disturbing for me to write. If you can write something, then it’s only so disturbing. Anything truly disturbing can’t even be written. Even if it could, no one could stand to read it. And writing is essentially a means of entertainment for both the writer and the reader. I don’t care who the writer is — literature is entertainment or it is nothing. Some readers would object and point to someone like Lautréamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror affiliate link. If they want to see it that way, it’s fine with me. Who am I deny someone their demonic heroes? No one has that much credibility in the history of humanity, nor ever will.

DFWsisters.....I don't feel so good

>>21312639
>She was shocked to read his novella My Work Is Not Yet Done, published shortly after he left the job - it's about a disgruntled office wagie planning a shooting spree at work, kek.
Kek

Ligotti was a mysterious looking dark Detroit dwelling mf.

>Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

>>19517305
>>only a retard would want to experience the horror of romantic love twice
Kek, based

Ligotti looked okay in his youth and considering that he is an artfag, he must have got his dick wet.

>>19281710

This man comes up to you at the book store and start sperging about how Dino Buzzati is a greater writer than Kafka, what do?