/lit/ - Literature

Fuck you I liked it and I refuse to elaborate further

but you can learn to actually do the physical act of writing. Both in the sense of using a pen on paper, and in the sense of allocating time to doing writing. The latter is a skill I have not trained, and because of this, I continue to not write anything even though I have excellent innate ability to 'write' in the sense which you mean.

Is there any hope of being a good modern writer if you don't have a degree in English? Even guys like Koontz and King were English teachers.

people focus on the bandana, but why did he wear his hair long?

What does Jordan Peterson think of DFW? Has anyone asked him in a Q/A?

I'm reading through Infinite Jest right now. What other books/writers will make me seem cultured and sophisticated to cool college kids (particularly the ladies)?

>implying chads actually write literature.

Name a worthwhile author who wasn't a cuck.

DFW practically worshipped him, so we should too

>>8516355
Harry Potter is a fine intro into lit when you're young, way to get memed friendo. This is a better intro into prose and structure, HP is a better intro into themes.

What did hé think of audiobooks? What do you think of audiobooks? Recommend audiobooks everyone!

Does anyone have this copy of weekender? What did he think of audiobooks?

David Foster Wallace killed himself because 4chan's existence functioned as a better argument as to why relentless irony is for developmentally stunted tryhards than he could ever come up with.

>>7874758
tu quoque

What would Nabokov have to say about Vonnegut, DFW, Ellis, Pynchon, Zadie Smith, Tao Lin, Green, Murakami and Rowling?

>>7227066
>waah I'm bored
Go ask your pastor to do some snake handling or something and then come back when you can pay attention.

>>7209679
>ubermensch
>can't get published
lmao

>>7198515
Homeschool bro from elementary through 7th grade checking in. I seriously blame it for the difficulty I've had with social gatherings despite having a ton of other things going for me in life. Homeschool is only acceptable if the only other options you can afford are complete and utter shit. My parents could afford to send me to any private school and should have done so sooner than they did.

>>7136985
I'm from America and I went to a university that was ranked #24 in the nation when I matriculated.

I had friends at Harvard, MIT and Brown, and it's worse at those schools than at the one I attended, so I'd say you have no idea what you're talking about.

There are people harassing the members of an all-male theatrical troupe at Harvard that's been in existence since 1795, trying to get them to admit women.

>>7119614
Kek, the kids in creative writing classes who talk about Nanowrimo are always the absolute worst, even lower than the girls whose stories are just chronicles of the emotional forces within a college-aged "friend group."

>>7105448
Wallace definitely had a bad case of influence anxiety over Pynchon, but I don't think he considered Vineland a big enough deal try to correct.

I'd say he wanted to complete the apocalyptic cycle of Gravity's Rainbow by having people sink into The Entertainment, i.e. giving themselves wholly over to the first-circuit infantile solipsism and ceasing to be complete human beings. This is in contrast to the implicit end of the world via superweapons and warfare (third-circuit territoriality and associated paranoia) combine with the transition to higher levels of awareness (circuits V-VIII [it's worth noting that there are circuits V, VI and VII in there if you like to puzzle over Pynchon titles]) sought by the White Visitation programmers and Blicero through metacognition programming and mysticism.

Basically he thought Pynchon's mystical vision of people leaving their humanity behind was outdated and that entertainment had the potential to drag a huge number of people down to their basest instinct by serving as a perfect surrogate mother, which would allow those able to resist or avoid the samizdat to do what they will.

>>7105475
Pretty sure Wallace himself was known to hit the doobie and hang out in front of the tube for a time. It's pretty common behavior for depressed people and he probably had quite a lot of self-loathing about this habit.

>>6830198
>dfw audience pussy
>dfw letting girls read my writing gets me laid
>dfw actually a good writer and find time to read
>dfw rich
What's up faggots?