/lit/ - Literature

Oh wow. Artis doing stuff different from project to project. How dare he.
And you. Free advertising? Pffff. Who cares.

>their books fly off the shelf like hot pancakes

>>19808568
He has moved on from beatnik to Andy Warhol?
strange little man

>>19808568
In case you haven't noticed, Waldun is still in the puerile phase where he apes those of whom he is reading.
>reads Shakespeare, Joyce, Proust, DFW, Pynchon, etc.
>writes The Learned Disguise
>starts reading a bunch of autodidact material, polymath shit, and anti-college authors
>write L'Académie
>reads the Beats, poetry, and shit like David Sedaris and Franz Lebowitz
>tries to start a Beat movment and writes There's A Tale to This City
>is now reading a biography on Andy Warhol and is also realizing he is a hack writer
>he is now a videographer/fashion designer/visual artist, no more of that writer shit
He's a hack.

>>19808568
I try not to want to beat this kid up

>>19808722
This is incredibly true. I hope he reads Faulkner next and starts speaking with a deep southern drawl :)

Can someone give me a rundown on the video? I really don't want to watch a 9 minute video of Waldun justifying how all along he has really and truly been a visual artist instead of a writer. Additionally I can see Waldun still thinks playing dress up is required to be an artist. He literally went out and bought "Andy Warhol" clothes to cement his new "artistic style" change. Bye bye Dark Academia! Hello pretentious 60's Dada art wankery!

>>19808743
He already has a speech impediment

>>19808743
He will wear a cowboy hat ironically in the next year once he gets into McCarthy and starts ironically reading vintage western pulp novels by Karl May.

Screencap this.

>>19808568
He looks like a uglier, more lesbian version of Yoko Ono in that pic

he became the arthoe he always wanted

now i get to fuck him

>>19808568
Does Waldun need to cosplay whetever movement he is aping at the time?

Anyone part of culture that is/was actually fucking cool and not a lame poser? I've always though Bolano was cool as fuck.

this guy has awful teeth

>>19808815
Yes, how else will he get likes, follows, and subscribers? For Waldun everything is about aesthetics. None of it is about skill or creativity. It's all about presenting the correct image.

>>19808583
>hasn't published any short stories in a while
>most of his recent vids are basically him justifying why he doesn't read or trying to be abstract about being an "artist"
I dont hate him, but come on anon. it is clear as day that he was an impressionable creative youth that fell in love with 2 pieces of lit(portrait of the artist as a young man, on the road) and fell into as a fad. his STEMlord chink dad rightfully told him he's just larping and now Waldun is stuck in a perpetual rat race with his youtube and photography in order to avoid taking the massive L of admiting your tiger bugman dad is right

alright, Waldun. I know you're either making these threads or lurking, and I know you've been avoiding me...
it's time to hmu, get a pdf of my book and review it. it's free so don't be shy.
nesmer.ogden@gmail.com (same goes for the rest of you)

>>19808743
An old video of his had Light In August in the thumbnail. I doubt he read it as Waldun is, as everyone knows, a massive pseud and a complete poser. But he is at least within reach of Faulkner, so it could happen.

>>19808896
We've reached a new low for /lit/
All the meme authors of this board will start begging Waldun for reviews.
Worst part of it is that he's got like 200K subscribers on his youtube channel so a good review from him would almost certainly generate significant sales.
Fuck it, can't beat'em, may as well join'em.
Waldun please review my book

>>19808568
he looks like a middleaged chinese woman. id fuck

>>19808568
i miss classic waldunism. this post-waldunist stuff ain't it.

>>19809172
>200k subscribers
>maybe only 10,000 active viewers
Still a larger audience than you would reach on /lit/

>>19809172
re: generating sales, I really have no idea how to make that happen...
gotta start with getting people like Waldun and his followers to see that there are actual writers on /lit/, and not just crocodile memes.
we can only make it if we try...

>>19808695
Quite a natural progression if you think about it

>>19808568

>>19809172
Not Chad F Gardner. He wrote HIM a review and it’s highest rated one.

>>19809296
Also lmao

>>19809288
writer/student of life
by god this guy have never heard the word "pretention" in his life

>>19809288
His latest...

>>19808568
>Treat Your Ideas Like A Pet Dog
>Journal
>Jan 25

>A bad idea usually peters out, but a good idea grows on me like a pet dog. I have to take it to lunch, to a library, to a café, but I’ll never take it to a cinema.

>Sometimes it grows on me so much that my life begins to revolve around it. Everything: eating, hanging out, partying, etc. They’re just things I have to get done before I can turn the idea into a video, a blog post, or a snarky auto-reply to e-mails in my spam folder.

>But I have to stop myself from executing the idea straight away because just like a pet dog, I need to walk it before it’s halfway tolerable. I need to let a good idea sit for a while before it balloons into something with substance.

>This usually looks like:

>1: Sitting at a café for an hour before the waiters chase me away

>2: Reading the first paragraphs of 10+ books at a bookstore

>3: Accidently bumping into someone I know in the streets and end up buying them a coffee

>4: Playing the first 4 seconds of Helikopter, Helikopter on repeat in my apartment

>Eventually, I’ll feel bloated. I can no longer carry the idea around because it’s too heavy. At that point, I have to let it go and put it out into the world.

>But I’ll never let a pet dog go in the same way.

>>19809458
>>19809469
Another triumph!

>>19809469
EVERY SINGLE THING WALDUN WRITES HAS TO INVOLVE A CAFE AND A BOOKSTORE THIS GUY IS SO FUCKING GAYYYYYYYYYYYYY

>>19809469
A good idea is like a pet dog because
>I have to take it to lunch, to a library, to a café, but I’ll never take it to a cinema.
>I need to let a good idea sit for a while before it balloons into something with substance.
>Eventually, I’ll feel bloated. I can no longer carry the idea around because it’s too heavy.
>I have to let it go and put it out into the world.

>>19809469
What the fuck...