/lit/ - Literature

>>19599925
You need to be of a certain tribe for that to happen. It's over.

>>19599925
lmao

>>19599933
checked

>>19599925
The Pale King was the death-knell of the American novel.

Increasing homosexuality

The Pale King was the death knell of the American novel.

>>19599999
witnessed

>>19599999
>>19600000
prophetic

>>19599999
Quints

>>19599999
>>19600000

>>19599999
>>19600000

Nuclear proliferation fucked us and the natural cycle of war is dead

Name some you like.

because no one wants to read about playing bing bing wahoos and smoking weed

>>19600150
There are still wars going on!!

>>19599933
Sad but true.

>>19599999

>>19600353
Modern wars aren't the same. It's mostly just drone strikes and suicide bombings. More people died during random battles in WW1 or 2 than died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars put together. I'm a veteran, for the record.

>>19599933
QUI?

>>19601187
The Second Congo War killed 8 million people. The Syrian Civil War killed 500,000. Tens of thousands have been killed in the Mexican Drug War. War is very much alive, unfortunately.

Jannys aren't all bad.

>>19601194
Daww

>>19601194
Fuck Jannies. I know I'm suicidal and no, I'm not wasting some suicide holiness time.
>>19601193
Only a couple hundred thousand of the deaths in the 2nd Congo War were from actual combat. The vast majority were from disease and starvation because Africans still don't know how to farm.

>>19601194
Fuck Jannies. I know I'm suicidal and no, I'm not wasting some suicide hotline's time.
>>19601193
Only a couple hundred thousand of the deaths in the 2nd Congo War were from actual combat. The vast majority were from disease and starvation because Africans still don't know how to farm or boil water.

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>>19599925
people seem to like edouard louis

>>19601238
The Congo is a shithole regardless of whether you can boil water, you'll need modern medicine to avoid catching one of the infinite number of undiscovered viruses that you now get to name. There was a pretty good write up of the entire fiasco that I'll take a look for but no guarantees, it's been a decade since I've last read it

>>19599999
>>19600000
checked
>>19601194
fags

>>19599925
Good question. Anything of the quality or masculine nature of Hemingway would be considered toxic today by publishing houses.

>>19602746
have you even read hemingway? it’s hardly macho

>>19602746
>masculine nature of Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises - main character is a eunuch
The Garden of Eden - main character is treated as a woman in bed

Twitter & Instagram is not good

>>19599925
young men are too problematic and risky to publish now. it is only a matter of time until they are me tooed and then the publisher would have to answer for their crimes against humanity. your only angles in are being gay or black or preferably gay and black. or alternatively you could look like such a fucking dork that no one would conceivably find you threatening, like ben lerner.

>>19599925
>Why are there so few young male authors (in fiction) being championed today?

Low levels in testosterone in the male populace.

Champion me, /lit/. I love you.

https://aaronward.substack.com/p/the-automatic-woman

>>19603368
You are a talentless faggot

>>19603249
>you could look like such a fucking dork that no one would conceivably find you threatening, like ben lerner.
wouldn't that be incel potential?

>>19603368
You are a talentfull faggot

>>19599999
>>19600000
Holy checked

While there's a very visible push to read non white male authors, I also think the writer pool leans heavily towards women regardless. The tumblr/YA/fanfic craze was dominated almost entirely by women, and that group makes up most of the writers today.

>>19603632
yes, but if you want to get somebody like that you can't go the direct rape/assault/abuse route. you have to go the al franken route, which is to take relatively innocent situations out of context and accuse them of being the pervert that everyone suspects they are. so a photo of him taken in a public setting pretending to touch a woman's breasts while on a comedy tour many years ago can easily do the trick. or the nail in the coffin that got gillibrand to demand he no longer can be allowed in the senate - an anonymous woman claiming he put his arm around here a little too low when she asked to get her picture taken with him.

so you are right, there are still dangers involved in publishing a man like that, but it is mitigated somewhat because the worst offenses are obviously off the table, no one can picture al franken violently raping someone.

>>19599999
>>19600000
REALLY makes you think.

>>19599925
Think about a young male author releasing his book in 2021. You hate him automatically don’t you? Same with everyone else. People have demonized each other in order to keep their egos intact, instead of building each other up.

I think there’s a lot of “I wouldn’t want to be that guy”ism going on. This happens across the board for all genders and races, where an individual is picked apart mercilessly for the benefit of the observers. Young men are more cautious not to be placed in this limelight than women. The same lack of this group exists with modern musicians, actors, artists, etc.