/lit/ - Literature

>>17305834
... and you have to compete with every single one of them.
How's that writing going, /lit/?

>>17305841
On the one hand, most great authors started as nobodies. On the other, they lived through interesting experiences that translated into good writing.

>>17305841
most people dont know anyone on that list.

>>17305841
I am not competing with them. They are my literary colleagues.

>>17306115
Kek

>>17305834
I'm happy about cormac, basedinka, and pynch. I hope they live many more long years in peace and happiness.

>Bret Easton Ellis
>Jesse Lee Peterson

>>17305841
Alice Munro can't write message board alienation, schizoposts, astral realm experiences, NEETdom, or DMT trips like I can.

bump

>>17305834
Barth is still alive? Is he still writing?

>>17305834
Theroux did a really great book thats about 70-80% dialogue. I havent read anything else by him but the story is fucking hilarious. A kid starts playing stocks and builds an empire

>>17305834
yeah but when the fuck is mccarthy gonna write something else worth reading

>>17307491
So it is JR done in a dialog centric fashion?

>>17307509
I'm talking about darkonsons cat dipshit

>>17307510
I guess you have not read JR.

>>17307517
Do gaddis/theroux fans not know anything about trolling?

Gary Snyder is based but how do you forget Lawrence Ferlinghetti is alive and oldest on this list.

>>17307526
That was not trolling, that was someone who read one book between two authors and is now trying to cover it up because they do not understand what it means to anonymously post.

>Jeffrey Epstein is still alive

>>17307574
I havent read either book dipshit lmao

>>17307579
You just helped prove the point.

>>17307595
Wot?

>>17305834
I wonder how much longer until McCarthy finishes his next book. Hopefully it's better than The Road.

>>17308441
He's been writing it since the 90s. He has aged and sliwed down but usually that's the sign of Kino.

>>17307124
He's mostly published story collections in the 2000's, most recently in 2015 but they've been mediocre iirc. He's like 90 now so I doubt there'll be much else from him. I really enjoy Barth but as far as I'm concerned the last thing he did worth checking out for Barth fans would probably be Somebody the Sailor from 91.

>>17305834
not if they have access into the internet, the great mind killer.

>>17309375
If you look on YouTube there's a video of him and others at the Santa Fe institute reading an excerpt of the Passenger. It was good but still kind of rough, not as edited as his published works of course. I think his time at the institute with Gell-Mann and all those other physicists inspired him to make a work that's pretty math and science heavy. Given that plus the fact it's been said to be a longer work means it's probably in editing hell, probably bogged down in all the details, passing it around to various professionals to fact-check and rewriting accordingly.

I mean Suttree took him like 30 years on and off, Cities of the Plain was written as a screenplay before the other two border books, so was No Country (I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was more or less contemporary when he first wrote it) and he doesn't seem the type to publish something he isn't entirely happy with. The first draft of Blood Meridian was basically unrecognizable compared to the final after all.

I'm thinking it's kind of 50/50 if we'll ever see it. On one hand he takes his time and this book seems far more complex than his others, but on the other, he's old and doesn't strike me as the type to give a shit about "disappointing the fans"

>>17309769
I have no doubt that we will get it in some form after he has died, finished or unfinished.

>>17305834
literary who?

>>17309769
>I think his time at the institute with Gell-Mann and all those other physicists inspired him to make a work that's pretty math and science heavy.

He has spent the last two decades editing and teaching science writing at SFI too. I imagine that has slowed him down too. Most modern science writing is painful to read.

>>17305834
Anne Carson is dead you dumb bitch

>>17307566
L.F. Is turning 102 in march. Crazy

I miss the Gass man

That’s too bad. I’ve heard a lot of them have great books. Hopefully McCarthy dies soon so I can start reading him

>>17309769
Suttree took him 20 years. It was semi-autobiographical and those types are almost always hard to write.
Yeah, i have checked the reading, but he said in 2009 that he was working on 3 books simultaneously. I wonder if he has revealed anything on the real deal. The passenger from the excerpt reading doesn't seem to be so kino unfortunately, albeit the narrator lady did a trash job, so could be that.

>>17310005
You only read dead writers?

>>17310054
Yes.

>>17309929
>>17309769
Trivia: Gell-Mann was the nobel laureate who established Santa fe institute. He was Corncob's friend and named 'quarks' after a word from a passage in Finnegans wake. Joyce is Corncob's favorite writer.

>>17310058
Barth, McCarthy and McElroy should be on your radar. Maybe the Pynch as well, he looks like a soft old dude; don't think he'll last long.

>>17306667
Post excerpt

>>17305834
>90% literally who??
Is this supposed to make me feel better? When is Shakespear coming back?

>>17310239
Maybe when you learn to spell his name correctly.

Bump

>>17306115
Post excerpt of your writing.

>>17305834
Not one of them is worth reading. Maybe 4-5 almost make it.

>>17311969
Kill yourself

>>17305834
>>Thomas Pynchon
stopped reading right there