/lit/ - Literature

Would transitioning have saved her?

He's a neoliberal rhetorician.

are there any reading groups active right now? post discord link

ITT authors that would would be blue check mark twitter psueds if they were alive today

We miss you

What would he be writing about if he were still around, /lit/?

are the rumors true?

>Dat Face When

Stop having fun.

>>11539604

What would he have thought of The Return?

>I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair. This is a cold room in University Administration, wood-walled, Remington-hung, double-windowed against the November heat, insulated from Administrative sounds by the reception area outside, at which Uncle Charles, Mr. deLint and I were lately received.

>I am in here.

>>10366378
>not playing it off as commentary on how our social lives amount to a string of half-hearted conversations where too-frequent smiles are substituted for genuine warmth
I call it the David Foster Wallace method. Find where your writing is weakest, "reluctantly admit" that it's intended as commentary on our culture (try to look a little embarrassed when you say this).

>But and so and but so
Was he for real?

Is /lit/ genuinely anti DFW now?

You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.

>sit in the middle of a ghetto infested with crack addicted negroes for 1 hour, 42 minutes and 12 seconds
>get mugged, raped, and stabbed
>so, this is water
Nice

Heh, you think that's ironic kid? Watch this.

*Commits suicide*

>Wallace committed suicide on September 12, 2008, at age 46. Wallace's father reported in an interview that his son had suffered from depression for more than 20 years and that antidepressant medication had allowed him to be productive.[44] When Wallace experienced severe side effects from the medication, he attempted to wean himself from his primary antidepressant, phenelzine.[45] On his doctor's advice, Wallace stopped taking the medication in June 2007,[44] then the depression returned. Wallace received other treatments, including electroconvulsive therapy. When he returned to phenelzine, he found that it had lost its effectiveness.[45] His wife kept a watchful eye on him in the following days, but on September 12, Wallace went into the garage, wrote a two-page note, and arranged part of the manuscript for The Pale King before hanging himself from a patio rafter.[51]

Should've called his book Infinite JUST

>>9204115
jokes on you, i shitpiost from the grave

I want a friend like DFW that I can hang out with once or twice a month, drink shitty beer with, play vidya, talk /lit/ until early in the morning or whatever. Is that strange?

Gibbous.

What would his OkCupid profile look like?

was he our guy?