/lit/ - Literature

>>11802287
fuck off tao

>>11802287
Hypersphere is sincere at the very least

>>11802314
I'm not Tao. Are you? I have some questions for Tao.

>>11802314
It's obviously Megan this time.

>>11802287
Piss off you copycat poser

>>11802478
No, but if she sees this thread she should post pits.
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>>11802561
I have that too but it's not what I expected.

>>11802574
What did you expect and what did you get?

i have the dril book, the leh0n book, the brendlewhat book, the bap book, all 3 totalitarianism in a tundras, hypersphere, pictures of dfw, the /lit/ milk and honey parody, the reddit book, cyclonopedia and fanged noumena and the chapo book. also im actually 3 years old.

>>11802892
>no Dreamscape

you failed

>>11802892
L’anomie?

>>11802892
Somebody post the milk and honey parody

>>11803062
This is about all I could find.

>>11803074
I'm disappointed.

>>11803077
I was as well.

>>11802892
3 year old go on chapo

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>>11803081
I cannot read this poems without an indian accent and imagining the writer having trouble to speak in english, if she is not trying to imitate that (though there's nothing that indicates that), then her rhythm is pure garbage

Hypersphere > Tundra

>>11802287
*Blocks your path*

>>11802561
You are like little baby.

Is there any type of person more insufferable than the insincere NYC alt hipster author? I swear to god on the day of the rope these vermin will earn their place on the scaffold somewhere between queers and apostates.

Hey since this is the dedicated meme book thread, does anyone remember that ebin meme book we used to pretend existed but really didn't. I can’t recall for the life of me.

>>11804142
I remember what you're talking about but also forgot the title.

>>11803092
You should commission a few readings on fiverr by some jungle indians to share with us.

>>11802524
Those titles are so bad that I am forever prejudiced against reading any of those books (with the exceptions of "Hypersphere" and "Selected Tweets", which have 4/5 titles).

>>11804691
Read L’anomie

>>11804738
for what purpose

>>11802864
I thought it was going to be funnier.
>>11802892
I didn't know the milk and honey parody actually came about. I remember people talking about the idea but I haven't been on much lately.

>>11804812
it has a good title

>>11803396
Collaborative writing is lame.

>>11802287
Wanted to read this because her stuff is interesting to read in short form, don't know if I can do 500 pages of the stuff

>>11803092
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/995299052987314177

>>11805721
Very profound

>>11802524
Where can I get Pictures of DFW as PDF and/or physically?

>>11806194
as long as she keeps it in the loo.

>>11806306
The book is on Lulu. Not sure where to get the PDFs for these.

>>11805721
I kinda get what she is trying to do rhythmically (not that his makes me like her poetry)but, compering her execution of her poems against the poems themselves, I think the poems lack commas (assuming she is trying to replicate the poem in her execution or her execution in the poem of course)

>>11802524
Selected Tweets is technically a /lit/ collaborative project in the loosest definition

>>11805721
>Perhaps we are all immigrants
>Trading one place for another
>Like moving from the suburbs to the filthy city

lmao neoliberalism in a nutshell. still, it's a mediocrity that's malignant by the unfortunate circumstance of its popularity, more a case of right time right medium. Boyle's is the aggressive manifestation of a fundamental shit-spewing rupture in the American psyche, and it's not even interesting anymore. NYC blows everything that came out of NYC sucks everything about NYC and even the way it sucks is so dated, the way NYC is shit on every level, culturally, economically, infrastructurally, spiritually, is a discussion that terminates sometime 2008-2015. there is no way to make it interesting again, not even increasingly detailed descriptions of ordinary transactions, not even retarded 80s movie references. modern life within that period in or around NYC experienced by a slightly autistic financially uninhibited drug addict doesn't matter, and it doesn't need to be preserved.

>>11808554
>modern life within that period in or around NYC experienced by a slightly autistic financially uninhibited drug addict doesn't matter, and it doesn't need to be preserved.
I agree with this part, but the notion that nothing interesting can ever come out of a cultural wasteland is wrong. The odds are against it but it's not impossible.

>>11808590
that's not my notion at all. ("a cultural wasteland" has little meaning to me, but that's besides the point.) the opposite, cultural exhaustion is the vital subject. but NYC, the people writing out of that period, their writing, is not good, and not vital. not vital not for being exhausted; no vital expression of exhaustion, or vitality for that matter. 80s movie fist pump freeze frame reference: does not "shimmer" between exhaustion and vitality, is shit.

>>11808632
I'm starting to get the impression that you might be one of these slightly autistic drug addicts yourself.

>>11808635
No drugs, full autism

>>11808655
More autistic was going to be my second guess.

>>11808658
Yes, and "more autistic" describes the entirety of cultural and social development for about ten years. Which is to my point; the scene I'm describing is a subdivision, concerned with some halfway stop towards the most resonant point. That's why Tao Lin (more and self-consciously autistic) was the only interesting writer within the genre, Darcie Wilder (helplessly/generationally autistic) is the apparent step forward for the style and Sam Pink, at an extreme of autism and its intersections with the general conditions of modern life (work, money/poverty, box living, inner city life (not Brooklyn Heights)) is the best of them. The halfways have been left behind, the extremes stand out, in literature as with everything else now.

>>11808717
The scene you're talking about is/was virtually nonexistent from start to finish. Tao Lin and a few of his various hangers on were described as "alt lit" by the small portion of the press who even talked about them but there was no genuine "movement", just a very loose circle of well-to-do or pseudo-well-to-do drug-addled narcissists who played at being artists/authors, usually for extremely brief periods of time.

I wouldn't even associate Sam Pink with Tao Lin and the rest because he seems to predate and have nothing in particular to do with them.

>>11806861
pretty good collection you got there anon.

>>11808748
we're using scene to refer to different things (my fault, I should have used a different word). the scene I'm describing, and the one you're talking about, is a subdivision, more highly specified: small group of people, limited timespan, place, even a few venues. that is exactly the scene I'm saying is played out, but moreso, the style, the trappings, which have been replicated and internalized widely to the point that yes, it can be called a movement. that scene was absolutely existent. but rather, it's a permutation of a larger movement that Sam Pink is part of. that larger movement has progressed and left behind the scene.

>>11808843
It's even less of a "movement" in the sense of being distinct or unique enough to warrant that title if you look at it that way. There are specific common 21st century elements the content, but it's arguably just a repetition of a kind of failed artist enclave pattern which recurs throught history.