/lit/ - Literature

>>19253937
>Great writing

>>18461475
>Why are all men who are 'into literature' like this? Do they have to formulate some bullshit contrarian talking point to feel unique or something? Men are so soulless and pathetic, no matter how hard they try to look intelligent.

>>17411141
>still describes things as 'cringe' and 'based'

>>16458949
>>16459021
>>16459882
>>16461333
>>16462297
>>16464671

Last one I got.

>>16421756
You deserved it

>>16097449
12:50
Wake up and eat yoghurt

13:40
head to work

14:00-17:00
work

17:00
come home

17:00-21:00
look at porn, jack off

21:00
dinner time

21:00-03:00
videogames and anime and 4chan and youtube

03:00-04:00
shower, etc

04:00
more anime

04:50
continue writing short story

05:00
Read

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sleep

>wardine be cry

What did he mean by this?

>>9247788
>good prose

Are these the only books you've ever read in your life?

>>8955948
They haven't, just the study of English tends to educate students to analyse books with respect to socio-political issues/themes more than was previously the case. I don't agree with everything Harold Bloom says, but his interview with Charlie Rose in which he talks about the retreat of aestheticism in academia is spot on.

It's easier to do that than to really dig deep into the style and substance of a book that's obviously saying more than "gee, wasn't colonialism bad, guys?".

English students have become far more pseudo-liberal, I give you that, but most of the ones I know are getting really fed up with it. Perhaps even more so than anyone else, since it's their field that's being degraded.

How do we end the oppression straight white males face in today's publishing world? would changing my name to Gompreetharpreet Ahkbarmalaknumohamed get me published ?

just saw soderbergh wrote a script for it - who should play ignatius? why do you think its jonah hill?

You've come to the right place! /lit/ is where the erudite shitposting's at.
Here's your complimentary DFW, enjoy

>>8486406
Why do women pretend to like Infinite Jest?

what book will sit in the #1 spot on /lits 2016 list of favorites? Brothers k?

yo you fucking whore's. cam we make lits top 100 of 2016 now? let's discuss this. I have an idea. everyone gets 5 votes. 2 votes have to be for books that weren't on last year's list.

During a conversation with Leonard Pierce of the A.V. Club, Harold Bloom said, "I don't know what I would choose if I had to select a single work of sublime fiction from the last century... it would probably be Mason & Dixon, if it were a full-scale book, or if it were a short novel it would probably be The Crying Of Lot 49. Pynchon has the same relation to fiction, I think, that my friend John Ashbery has to poetry: he is beyond compare."

do you agree? why haven't you read this yet?

>>8349368
>Why didn't you buy it?

I'm a NEET, mang. My finances are quite dicier.

>>8319331

>the book's main premise is the issue with entertainment and irony, something your average college sophomore isn't too interested in

I may not be your "average college sophomore", but I see entertainment and irony as pretty important topics to anyone around college age who can look at their peers' and their own participation in social media/netflix/dumb apps from even a slightly removed viewpoint.

Plus, yeah, DFW is a fun meme and IJ is actually a deceptively easy read with only the occasionally-gimmicky-seeming endnotes to vault it to a falsely perceived higher level of difficulty.