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>>17714213
LMAO, you just doxxed yourself
Not a good look to have browsed 4chan as an up-and-coming author

>>17715132
no one cares dude, the FBI agents and antifa troublemakers you think are obsessively watching this site are mostly figments of your imagination.
It's just us nerds and autists here

Your post doesn't match this face. No reason for you not to post a time-stamped selfie, come on we're waiting.

>>17715308
>It's just us nerds and autists here
I'mma second that and add nothing else to this thread
but also good luck OP, keep going

>>17714213
OP trying to dox author of this book

>>17715325
why do i need to post a selfie? I came here for intelligent reading recommendations, perhaps i'm on the wrong board or talking to the wrong person?

>>17714213
>white author
Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Only so many books and stories can be published and you are in effect silencing the voices of disenfranchised people of color, queer people, and differently abled people. They have stories to tell too but white people won't give them their turn. What you should do is talk to your publisher and sponsor one of the many available and underrepresented authors out there in your place if you're a good person.

>>17715383
Actually it's the opposite
Here in Australia almost the entire publishing industry is woke and the best way to get published and win awards is to check off as many boxes on the diversity checklist as possible.
I was told bluntly by publishers and reviewers in Melbourne that they weren't interested in what a straight white guy like me has to say.
I'm lucky to have gotten as far as i have and it's very hard to get further.

>>17715407
Please, tell us more how oppressed but talented and hard working you are white man. You're pathetic you know that?

Why is this thread glowing so much?

>>17715383
Poor bait,

>>17715434
I attempted to do a serious post hopefully leading to some quality recommendations.
I forgot the idiotic and toxic nature of this board, my mistake.
I will go back to DFW posting and bitching about Harry Potter right away. My apologies for taking this board seriously.

>>17715407
>I was told bluntly by publishers and reviewers in Melbourne that they weren't interested in what a straight white guy like me has to say.

So write under an ethnic-sounding pseudonym. It's probably the easiest field imaginable to do so.

>>17715458
Too early in the morning mate, americans are still awake. Come back around like 8pm and you might get decent discussion.

>>17715465
Yeah the thought did cross my mind, either that or pretending to be Aboriginal which i'm convinced a lot fo writers in this country are doing.
But, and forgive me if this sounds pretentious, if i can't succeed on my own merits as myself then success is meaningless to me.
Call me old fashioned and hopelessly romantic for thinking like that but i can't help it.

>>17714213
The Arabian Nights are essential. And Borges, Borges is often considered one of the greatest short story writers. I’d also suggest Dubliners by Joyce. And picrel

>>17715476
perfect time to engage with insomniac americans and a few disheartened minorities

>>17715491
At last an intelligent post!
I've read the Chekhov and the Turgenev and the Maupassant so far. I will look up the others right away.

>>17715458
What you should have done is asked your question without "doxxing yourself" (I use quotes because you might not be this short story author at all) or posted a selfie; if you'd done the latter more people would've come forward to offer advice who would've otherwise gone with the more likely assumption that you are pretending to be this guy for no particular reason.

>>17715503
This is more modern also. Personally, I suggest philosophy as a means to enrich your stories. Getting outlandish and tapping into the discontent of modern society with philosophers like Deleuze, Derrida, or Ellul could really help you write from some interesting perspectives.

>>17715477
I think you really just mean to say that if you can't get personal credit you don't want to do it. To me, this appears to be more important to you than your desire to "just being the best short story writer i can possibly be." If you truly cared about your art, you'd want it to get out there by hook or crook. It's clear that the publishers aren't judging the works on their merits, so that bit of your argument can be dismissed out of hand.

>>17715506
See this right here is how fucked up this board is.
People are assuming i'm not the author of this book because they assume everyone on this board is mentally ill and trolling the shit out of everyone else for reasons that only make sense to the mentally ill people in question.
Perhaps we all need to cut 4chan out of our lives for good?
It can't be healthy for us.

>>17715506
>15458
>What you should have done is asked your question without "doxxing yourself"

He clearly has the ulterior motive of advertising his book.

>>17715491

>>17715544
I've read Saki, Joyce and Jack London, thanks for the recommendations, i'll check out the rest

>>17715528
Nobody here is going to buy his book as he is clearly so poorly-read an author that he needs to come here to ask us for short story recommendations.
>>17715503
Here he explicitly exposes how ignorant he is of the classics. He's only read 3 of the suggestions on the INTRODUCTORY /lit/ short story guide.

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>>17715552
Poor execution doesn't render the motive a nullity.

Lewis Woolston hates niggers. I met Lewis Woolston at a book signing event, I am a black man, Lewis Woolston called me a nigger. Lewis Woolston pending allegations of racial bigotry. Racial supremacy Lewis Woolston. Lewis Woolston called me a nigger and told me to go pick cotton. Lewis Woolston drugged my drink at the book signing event and called me a nigger. I woke up in Lewis Woolston's cotton field and he told me to work faster or I'd be "one red nigger." I aksed him what Lewis Woolston meant by that and he said "I am Lewis Woolston and I hate niggers and faggots."

>>17715362
>4chan
>intelligent
indeed very intellect we are here.

Boccaccio, Flannery O'Connor, Gogol...

Stay safe, citizen.

>>17714213
Chekhov and Maupassant are the two greatest imo, they both wrote a ton of short stories that cover a wide range of timeless issues.

I also would recommend Isaac Babel. He is very good. He's more obscure than Chekhov, although not super unknown.