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Was there any writer in history that could be described as a rockstar?

>> No.18288678

I mean lord byron was really the progenitor of that sort of thing

>> No.18288682

Arthur rimbaud had a pretty wild time on this planet

>> No.18288729

>>18288646
DFW was not a "rockstar", even and especially when compared to basically any famous 20th Century writer - Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, William S Burroughs, James Baldwin, etc. - were all more famous and lived it up more than DFW

>> No.18288736

Yeah. Modern commercial writers like JK Rowling and George RR Martin. They literally travel around doing radio shows and interviews for publicly like a rockstar and their fans obsess over them like teenage girls obsess over BTS.

>> No.18288830

Dickens. Dickens was a fucking rockstar of literature.

>> No.18288855

Hunter S Thompson

>> No.18288904

>>18288729

Mailer definitely

>> No.18288906

>>18288646
Marquis de Sade

>> No.18288911

definitely not him lmao

>> No.18288917

>>18288682
and cause hes hot

>> No.18288919

>>18288911
Rivers Cuomo was a rockstar too

>> No.18289177

>>18288646
Bukowski and Thompson

>> No.18289189

>>18288855
This is the correctest answer

>> No.18289201

>>18288646
Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Artaud was kind of a sui generis rockstar mayble closer to Zappa than to your average rockstar stereotype, Hume, Burroughs

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18289215

Nick Cave.

>> No.18289226

>>18288678
>>18288682
>>18288855
These

>> No.18289229

Ken Kesey

>> No.18289870

>>18288646
Patti Smith

>> No.18289939

>>18288678
Casanova predates him and his memoirs are epic lit.

>> No.18291279

>>18288646

Rene Descartes until he got to the court of Sweden, where everybody realized that he's a sycophant more interested in riding on royal coattails than pursuing objective truth.

>> No.18291540

>>18288678
Based

>> No.18291563

Hemingway

>> No.18291579

>>18291279
I don't think that's correct. I think he reached his court just as everyone started ignoring him, but nobody ever said he didn't reach the king of Sweden, they just said he was ignored there.

>> No.18293181

>>18288646
Hank Moody

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>>18288646
Yes. He read way more than /lit/ and fucked way more than /lit/

>> No.18293399

>>18288646
d'Annunzio, Shakespeare, Mishima (maybe)...

>> No.18293403

rock stars are lame. of an author is described as a "rock star" their work probably suffers for it.

>> No.18293408

>>18288646

JBP

>> No.18293480

>>18293198
gimme an educated guess of his body count and sex toll.

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>>18288646

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>>18288646
Hail to the King, baby.

>> No.18293617

>>18288646
Obviously the work takes precedent, however, where have all the personalities gone? It feels like every writer is the same person xeroxed with minor superficial alterations.

>> No.18294208

>>18288646
Oscar wilde

>> No.18295939

>>18288736
>JK Rowling and George RR Martin
They're hated by their core fanbase and most of their public activity consists of philanthropy

>> No.18295944

Tao Lin

>> No.18295950

>>18293198
and was still a pleb

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18295968

I mean... he fills theaters and travels all over the world... drug problem... daughter is a hoe... almost died of addiction... sees as someone who stands up against the establishment... met with roaring crowds wherever he goes... moralists scream that he's a bad influence on kids...

You guessed right; It's the Chaos and Order man: Jordan B Peterson.

>> No.18296096

>>18295968
Funny one, but he's an advocate of order and he doesn't like too much chaos. Not very rockstar-esque at all.

>> No.18296113

>>18289215
True. Extremely /lit/ songwriter and rockstar

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>>18288646
>ctrl f
>goethe
>zero results
>mfw

>> No.18296192

>>18296096
Well, his newest book is all about taking control of Chaos to transform the world.

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18296198

On this board? F. Gardner

>> No.18296205

Schoppie toted guns and fucked whores all day every day

>> No.18296238

>>18294208
Came here to say this

>> No.18296306

>>18288646
Byron

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>>18296198
>Did you know my name is Frank Edward Gardner Jr? I am 32 years old, a registered Democrat and a derp faced faggot who calls myself an author and spams my YA trash on 4chan. I am named after my father Frank Edward Gardner Sr. who was a former environmental attorney before becoming the water reclamation district commisioner of Cook County. He even tried to sue Fox32 TV station once! I tried to run for the same position as my nepotist daddy when I was 27. My mother's name is Kathleen Mary Gardner (Her maiden name was O'reilley before she gave it up to marry my rich city government lawyer daddy). I live in River Forest, Illinois.
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140210/submitted/302109981/
https://mandellmenkes.com/court-dismisses-defamation-claim-arising-from-tv-news-report-on-metropolitan-water-reclamation-district-candidates-campaign/
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