/lit/ - Literature

Dead white men/literary canon. The Dharma Bums. Webcomic collections, especially KC Green and Kate Beaton. Well-regarded graphics novels like MAUS and Watchmen. Sylvia Plath. Anything that was published in the New Yorker.

>/tv/
>Hipster

The same board who won't talk about the Wire but creamed their collective jeans over Lost every other post?

http://tinyurl.com/rdva

you're welcome!

"The Stranger" by Camus
"Notes from Underground" and "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
"Nausea" by Sartre
"Lolita" by Nabokov
Anything by Shakespeare, but preferably the lesser-known works

for the metal-head hipsters:
1984 by Orwell

>>1574314

Oh! And Banksy collections. How do hipsters feel about Stuff White People Like? Did they take it well or repudiate it?

>>1574322
/tv/'s #2 show (after fucking LOST) is The Wire. Have you ever actually been there?

Anyway, hipsters tend to enjoy Russian literature, for whatever reason. I can't say I blame them, though I don't really understand how the two connect.

>>1574335

I flipped through Stuff White People Like. They put "weed" in there. I thought that was a stereotype for black people. There was a bunch of like-minded arbitrary shit that isn't even a funny stereotype of white people.

>>1574335
hate it while being perfect examples of it

Murakami definitely. I now cringe whenever I hear someone talk about him.

>>1574352

Some of them are pretty funny I think.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/11/18/116-black-music-that-black-people-dont-listen-to-anymore/

Tao Lin?

>>1574396
entry level hipsters like tao lin
more advanced hipsters hate him
the most advanced of all like him again

>>1574401
Oh OK.

>>1574332
Those are indie-bro book recommendations. McSweeney's is too earnest for the hipster in his purest form.

oh yea anything by Kafka too

Camus
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Franzen
Kafka
Beckett
Twain
Whitman
Thoureau
Emerson

Quality hipster reading right thurr.

The Fuck Up - Arthur Nersesian.

Actually, I never see hipsters talking about it, and I don't really know what a hipster is, but from my guesses, I think it may be something they might like.

I thought it was pretty good, anyway. But I don't think I'm a hipster.

>>1574460
>Franzen

don't make me adjust my designer spectacles in your direction

Eliot too. Those crazy cats.

Canlitfag biding my time.
Hipsters will eventually come over to canadian lit because no one else reads it.

>>1574473
Are you referring to T.S. or George?

>>1574481
hipsters dont know the difference

OR MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, WE ALL TALK ABOUT VONNEGUT BECAUSE OF HIS RELATIVELY SIMILAR PROSE THAT ALLOWED US TO READ HIM FROM QUITE A YOUNG AGE?

LOOK AT THE MAJORITY OF SHIT HERE TALKED ABOUT, IT'S MAINLY 'ENTRY-LEVEL' FOR A REASON. IT'S JUST THAT SOMEBODY HAS DECIDED TO COUPLE MANY OF THESE 'ENTRY-LEVEL' AUTHORS/BOOKS UNDER WHAT HIPSTERS ALSO ENJOY.

HONESTLY, I DON'T GIVE A SINGLE FUCK ABOUT HIPSTERS OR ANYTHING ELSE LIKE THAT. IT'S JUST ANOTHER MEANINGLESS BANDWAGON THAT EVERYONE SEEMS TO JUMP ON. FROM THE TRYHARDS, TO THE TRYHARD HATERS.

>>1574481
T.S. They like to pretend they get all the references.

Pynchon is not hipster lit as hipsters don't even read it. He is, however, worshiped by hipsters who read reviews online and don't even know the plot of anything he has written. The same cannot be said about Wallace, sadly.

But aside from that, you want some lit recs?
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (his most "hipster" book)
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Naked Lunch by WS Burroughs

The phony hipsters I hang out with all worship the Beats for some reason. I cant stand Kerouac but I do love Bourroughs, and Ginsberg is alright so thats something for ya

I still don't know what a hipster is. I think I'll cry.

>>1574519
Someone who involves themselves in an obscure scene to appear attractive to other members of the same train of thought. Basically being a hipster is completely anti-intellectual when it comes to literature.

>>1574557

>Someone who involves themselves in an obscure scene to appear attractive to other members of the same train of thought.

Like golfers?

>>1574578
Essentially, yes. The fashions are basically the same too. Lots of plaid.

>>1574305
>Vonnegut
>hipster

Fuck off faggot.

Hipsters don't read books, and even if they do, I'm not letting those trendy dipshits ruining one of my favorite authors or any author for that matter.

Seeing as none of the authors mentioned in this thread were even around in the 90s/00s/whenever hipsters as we know them today came into being, it's absolutely ridiculous to claim that an author or his works belong to such a shitty clique of asshats.

Keep the hipster talk on /mu/, this board is one of the last few bastions where people don't fret about such silly social distinctions.

>>1574624
>ruining
>ruin

Fix'd.

>>1574624
this

>>1574624
Hipster alert.

>>1574624
Hipsters as we know them came into the public eye in the 1960s. Very different fashions, but even Frank Zappa called them hipsters. Bands like The Velvet Underground and pretty much every beat author ever (even though that was the 50s) prove they existed at the time.

>4chan has an obsession with hipsters

Fuck off, /lit/ doesn't,

Hipster-trolling is one of the lowest forms of trolling.

>>1574305
>>1574328
>>1574460

>>1574652
Hipsters was a term orignally used to describe white kids who were into Jazz.

I used the term "as we know them" to differentiate between the Beatnicks and the scum that infest Urban Outfitters nowadays. Granted there are some similarities, ie. let's all jerk to post-modernism, I can't imagine the original ones being as annoying/inflammatory.

Also:
>>1574637

no u

>>1574460
These are all authors I really like :(

>>1574679
"Hipster" being used to describe white kids who were into jazz was in the 1940s. Hipsters in the 1960s were, in fact, rich white kids who moved out of their plastic suburban neighborhoods to the big city to join rock bands who couldn't play instruments worth a damn. Ever heard of Suzy Creamcheese?

>>1574697
Hah, nope.

Won't look into it either. Guess I learned something new.

>>1574467

I still don't understand - I like some jazz, but I htink most of it is shit.

I love nineteen eighty-four, and I think Shakespeare's a genius of the ages. I liked that Fuck Up book.

Where are hipsters in relation to Geoff Dyer, and, errm, Tom Robbins?

Do designer glasses make you a hipster, because mine are pretty splendid.

I'm worried that I might be a hipster. What do I do? Is there anyone I can contact?

Guys

Seriously

Stop thinking about this thread

>>1574465
this is a hipster book because you can buy it at urban outfitters. i really liked it too though

Derail this troll train.

/fa/ is full of hipsters and hipster fashion.

Kurt Vonnegut is hipster now?

:(