/lit/ - Literature

what is Jacobite magazine

>tfw published in a respected journal.
So this... this is patricianhood...

Does /lit/ like Moldbug as much as they like Land?

I am writing a short story from the third person perspective. How much of the characters' feelings should I spell out as the narrator and how much should I try to telegraph indirectly?

I know some good books who do it one way and others that do it the other way. Is showing always better?

Anyone here writing a short story? Post a synopsis here

>cyberpunk story
>premise is that there's a VR-based MMO game that's super serious (think EVE online cranked up to 11) and has stakes comparable to the NFL
>spectators sometimes watch big battles between players
>there's some guy playing a wizard who is the strongest player in the game, and he gets a hit called on him in real life while he's in the VR world
>the protagonist who is tangentially involved then gets roped into an underworld crime conspiracy

I've just read the first page of Ulysses. Literally nothing's happened. Does it get any better?

what does /lit/ think of modern poetry? it seems that many people here find poetry written in traditional forms archaic and boring (understandably) but I've seen a lot of antipathy toward modern verse as well. I don't think there's anything wrong with free verse, necessarily, just not the stuff that reads like a shopping list or prose-with-line-breaks, like

You got on the train
I waved goodbye
the sun was on your face
My heart left with the train
etc.
two cartons eggs
pound of bacon
etc.

where do you think poetry is headed next? most recently we had the alt lit movement, which frankly I find to be degenerate and almost completely devoid of value except for some of Tao's stuff. some of his poems are actually quite beautiful. thoughts?