/lit/ - Literature

>>11830936
It's about 3 years too late for anyone to care Megan.

>>11830936
Why should I bother, Megan?

>>11830936
post lewd nudes, fellow tinder user?

>The results are an illuminating text of great length with poetic insight on every page. It is a reading experience that leaves a little bit of Megan Boyle inside of you long after you have finished reading it. This is akin to Karl Ove Knausgard’s My Struggle and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, yet totally different and new—and it is a book of daring length. Drugs, love, home, parents, friends, life, death, work, and the internet. LIVEBLOG is an historical text, extremely unique and shockingly human.

>>11831825
I'd rather leave a bit of me inside her.

>>11831836
Meaning semen.

>>11830936
quit shitposting tao

>>11831935
Yeah, go to bed, Tao.

>A novel

I got it last Monday but I haven't read any yet.

>>11831970
How?

>>11830936
alt lit was finished by mommy rooney

>>11832577
I pre-ordered it a while ago from the Publisher's website. Shipped out on the 12th.

liveblog will be alt-lit's be here now and leave society its this is hardcore

Are there reviews?

i got an advance review copy. about 350 pages in right now. shit is finally starting to get going it seems. for a long time she keeps not getting shit done.

one thing that i have been thinking is, how the fuck does she have money for an apartment in new york? she never fucking works!

>>11833645
She got a sick pension from her Panda Express job.

>>11833645

>>11834294
>Be a "hot young writer"
>Still work at Jamba Juice to make ends meet
Truly the worst time to have ambitions of being an author

>>11833645
Mooching off your parents can get you far enough.

>>11834324
Let's be honest here, no one ever gave a shit about her writing.

>>11834339
Yeah but even Tao said he made no money in the past couple years

>>11834350
Why would that surprise you? Hipster bait like alt lit is ephemeral by nature.

>>11830936
Alt lit was never real, Megan.

>>11834294
more readable resolution

>>11833645
hi megan. quite the ironic post.

>>11830936
Two questions:
1. Is the "alt lit" genre entirely invented by members of the genre seeking out an advertisable label for their work such that they can shill it on /lit/ etc.? I see no discernable difference between these people and anyone other set of writers who have the balls to write something somewhat honest and somewhat weird. So far as I can tell alt lit is just alternative to the vacuous mainstream, and by measuring itself relative to the mainstream rather than another standard, it is inevitably absorbed into the mainstream. The term, to my limited knowledge, appears to be even less meaningful or substantial than the term "postmodernism."
2. How should I go about carving my own niche as a contemporary writer? I acknowledge that I will probably have to use similar tactics, in the end, and post cutesy weirdnesses on Twitter, and if I ever "make it" I will have to go to book tours and so on, but I'm unsure how to approach it more concretely. I've been toying with the idea of a pseudonymous pseudoliterary/pseudophilosophical blog/journal/essay collection of sorts, and have been building (and editing) a small stockpile of writings for its launch, but that's only a first step.

>>11834788
1. The label was invented by the segments of the media who covered them. They just did generic millennial new yorker shit in a vaguely "literary" context.

2.Spam your stuff as aggressively as possible. That's how Tao Lin did it.

>>11831825

Have you ever read a blurb that made you this certain that a book was going to suck?

>>11834339
for the record ive always liked her writing a lot and felt very attracted to her after reading her first book

>>11830936
Can someone Boyle this down for me?

>>11835415
Tao Lin be cry.