/lit/ - Literature

Time turns the sweetness of youth to ash in your mouth.

Beyond nostalgia, the mass market nature of all media means there is no highbrow or lowbrow anymore, everything must be for all audiences, and suffers for it.

>>17682858
>there is no highbrow or lowbrow anymore, everything must be for all audiences, and suffers for it.
Why is this a bad thing?

>>17682832
post it if it's so good, fucker.

>>17683031
No variety = no culture
>>17683066
You can get banned for posting fanfiction, you think I’m a moron?
https://web.archive.org/web/20120419155224/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6757918/5/The_Date
Pretty sure they have sex to D. H. Lawrence in a later chapter somewhere.

>>17683031
Both the highbrow and the lowbow have becomes muddied and unappealing. There is nothing wrong with universalist works, but the loss of the niche literature saddens me beyond words.

>>17682832
older things only seem better because only the good ones stand the test of time. How do people not understand this concept?

They’re written for the masses now. Mass literacy was a mistake

>>17683320
Wrong. There are good ages and bad ages for art. We are in a period of stagnation and decadence, art (and morals) have been in the process of degrading.

>>17683456
There's no more art to be done, everything has already been done. There's never going to be good art again.

>>17682832
the next great novel will be a string of tweets

>>17683478
That would be niche literature.

>>17683478
>>17683530
They’re called text novels and they’re popular in Japan

>>17682832
read this. it's from Jan 2021 and it's actually not that bad

>>17684058
I’m actually reading it right now it’s definitely got the makings of a modern classic. Funnily enough it’s very Nabokovian.

>>17684108
Forgot pic

>>17684112
I hope you enjoy it.

>>17682832
It is unlikely there will ever again be a human population that is (a) sufficiently educated (b) lacking technological cognitive impairment (c) large enough to sustain a group of exceptional individuals, to produce works of older caliber.

Maybe posthumans will work it out.

>>17684112
what book. post exterior cover pic

>>17684164
>>17684058

>>17684190
how thick is it?
also did you photoshop that pic it looks like it's buldging out at the bottom right?

>>17684112
are you a faggot?

>>17684190
>>17684112
Bro what happened to your fingernails?

>>17684204
No that’s because of the way I’m holding it, it’s not a hard cover. It’s about as thick as a blacknmild

>>17684237
>she reads your books and measures thickness in cigar-widths
... if only ...

Anyway, if you'd be interested in reading a rough draft of the first three chapters of the second book in that series I'll be writing (set to release around the 20 - 25th this month hopefully) here's a link for that:

https://pdfhost.io/v/~klVR9c1U_BOX_KICKER_Feb17th2021_THREE_CHAPTER_TEASER_John_David_Cardpdf.pdf

>>17683163
wow. Read through and this called me lonely in 7 languages.

Publishing niggers and women and ignoring white men. That's literally it.
Not getting published in 2021 is the best sign that you are actually a good writer.

>>17684257
Based chad Card giving out free literature

>>17684257
Did you paint your nails to look like a girl so you could shill your book?

>>17684409
Why would I do that, anon?

Don't worry, /lit/, I am going to write the greatest work of literature of the 21st Century and save American letters. You can count on me.

>>17684409
Card is brown(er) than that