/lit/ - Literature

>>4794349
You obviously don't know genius when you see it

>>4483086
Hello, friend.

>>4205325
0/10. Now you're just being obvious.

>>4198921
Thanks for the sneak peak at your new book, Ben.

Captcha: onlyjus you

Anybody seen this yet?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b038pbfq/Meet_the_Author_08_08_2013/

My God, Brooks is a frightening young talent. In Lolito, he creates a multi-coloured, grubby little world that I'd really hate to read about if I was a parent. Magnetising, funny and disturbing, his prose is infectious and highly addictive. I loved it (Tim Key)

Lolito is the funniest, most horrible book I've read in years. I was blown away (Nick Cave)

I love Ben Brooks. And Lolito is really something else. A twisted age-gap love story that is deadpan and grubby and strangely poetic and funny and wrong and also very right. It is like how The Graduate would have ended up if Dustin Hoffman had watched a lot of Loose Women and drank Strongbow and spent too much time on the internet (Matt Haig)

Grow Up is absolutely knockout - Brooks has the timing of a genius stand-up comic. Top class (Richard Milward)

Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter (Noel Fielding)

The most convincing portrayal of the adolescent mind since Vernon God Little (Ewan Morrison)

This is a totally convincing portrait of being a wayward teenager now, that only a teenager could have written (Dazed & Confused)

>>3859678
>dat jelly

Ben Brooks - Grow Up

Another Brit, wrote this when he was 17 published when he was 19. Got pretty mainstream, translated into various languages, alt-lit writer

>>3489415
That's now what "cult American novelst and poet Dennis Cooper" says

>tfw no qt literary bf