/lit/ - Literature

>>20999309
Neither, since I have good taste in books.

>>20999313
just shut the f, ok

>>20999313
You don't read, fuck you!!

>>20999309
I'm a pirate ebook kind of guy

>>20999309
I have books from both. Stoner is not available from Penguin. The Faerie Queene is not available from NYRB.

Im not from new York so penguins it is

>>20999321
Which design do you like more, the black stripe at the bottom or the box in the center?

>>20999327
The black stripe at the bottom is less intrusive and allows to appreciate the artwork more widely.

>>20999318
>>20999315
>t.

>>20999309
NYRB kind of guy

More Arktos and Antelope Hill personally

>>20999309
Neither, since I have good taste in books

>>20999313
>>20999401
Prove it, bot.

>>20999319
You a zlibrary guy? I’m trying to figure out how to pirate without the inconvenience of not finding a properly formatted ebook until my third download. Any tips pro pirate anon?

>>20999403
Always look for the biggest file. They are usually official ebooks.

>>20999404
Post your chin and nose, you DYEL offspring of Herschel leiberman

>>20999412
>you're le Jew!
???

>>20999309
For me? Oxford World's Classics

>>20999309
For me it's Wordsworth Classics.

I've been a Penguin shill for the past 8 years aka I say that actually Penguin is good and just as good as Oxford with a few exceptions but lately I've realised that Oxford classics is far superior to Penguin

>>20999449
Really depends on the edition and the book. Paradise Lost is better in Penguin because Oxford modernized some spellings and fucked up the meter.

>>20999444
Based
I love how they never start a chapter on a new page. They really don't give a fuck

i try to get everything in oxford worlds classics but that's admittedly mostly because i study at oxford

I like Oxfords for the notes and covers, Penguins for their availability. I only have one NYRB at the moment but I like their covers/design and the more interesting/atypical books they publish.

>>20999491
>humblebragging

>>20999496
yeah

>>20999538
Roundabout way of telling us you’re a diversity admittance.

Should I subscribe to NYRB's book of the month? Seems like a good way to broaden my horizons and potentially run into some hidden gems.

>>20999706
>NYRB
>hidden gems
Lmaooooo newfag

>>20999720
what?

>>20999724
>what?
Retard

>>20999738
Explain

>>20999555
not at all, was simply consistently top of the class during my undergrad and did an excellent bachelor's thesis

Just got his in today what am I in for?

>>20999838
The chad translation of W&P. Congrats, lucky fella.

>>20999823
>bachelor’s thesis
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA

>>20999858
oh shut up

>>20999862

>>20999309
left is Penguin's greatest cover of all time
their winning horse regardless of the race

>>20999410
Thank you king of pirates

>>20999444
Keke, based double trips

>>20999444
CHECKED

>>20999364
based beyond belief

make sure you keep lifting weights

I'm already done with the classics and now into books before paperbacks were even a thing.

>>21000918
What?

>>20999309
NYRB is pure kino. Picked up a mint copy of Williams' Butcher"s Crossing today at the used bookstore for 3 bucks.

>>21000933
Is Williams worth reading beyond Stoner?

>>21001007
Yes. Butcher's Crossing and Augustus are both good books.

>>21000933
Nice find, anon. Glad to see more people picking this one up.

>>21000933
>>21001033
I want to read it before the movie comes out and all the faggots salivate over it.

>>21001007
Apparently his first book is so bad that he himself disowned it. Haven't read it but everything else he wrote is great.

>>21001007
Augustus is great

>>20999309
Oxford

>>21001359
I prefer their comma.

>>20999309
The basic Penguin Classics edition is just simply not good for long-term use. I really had how the black on the spines start flaking off after just one read. Never had that problem with NYRB, their paperbacks are just more robust and in my opinion feels better to read

>>20999432
Ah, I see you're a fellow patrician.

>>21000918
this mf was done reading the classics back in 1836, impressive

>>20999880
Literally me except my parents aren't rich.

>>20999444
Based

>>20999444
Based and Wordsworth-pilled

Why are you posting a book not even out?

>>20999444
Patrician

Holy Based

https://pen.org/translating-the-future/

>>21001378
I like the look of a worn penguin classic, idk I think they look cool the more they age and get weathered

>>20999747
Nigger

>>20999335
Poor guy. Just minding his own business, listening to music or maybe NPR, with his unassuming little Jew face, while some malignant cunt snaps his picture for the purpose of mockery. Really rubs my nards the wrong way.

>>21004638

>>21004644
The guy on the right -- wtf is his problem?

>>21003969
Because the book is out, this is just a new translation. The cover is pretty

>>20999309
>Are you a [Jewish American publisher] kind of guy or a [Jewish American publisher] kind of guy?

>>20999309
For me, it's signet classics.

>>20999444
Unfathomably based.

>>20999838
Best translation but penguin clothbound are fucking awful covers, the cloth they use is like cheap burlap and the paint they stamped it with will rub off by the time you are half way through

>>21006099
John Siciliano, Executive Editor of Penguin Classics.

>>20999327
The black stripe does not even align when you put the books together

>>21006099
Edwin Frank, Editorial Director of the New York Review of Books Classics series.

>>21006188

>>21004644
fuck I laughed so hard

>>21006188
Italian
>>21006198
Anglo

>>21004644
>average modern New Yorker desperately trying to ignore traditional New Yorker

This image is actually kind of profound. Weak twig tech nerd sits there with his vintage headphones. Making the slightest effort to protect his backpack while pretending not to notice the impoverished immigrant glaring at him not even a few feet away waiting for shitty public transit. Complete with the American flag in the background. This unironically says a lot about society.

>>21004644
Look at that Jew boy feeling threatened by a Guatemalan kek

Penguin Classics publishes and translates better books in general. A lot of NYRB is just kind of deep cuts. People like Buoy Cesares are cool authors but you can't really build a foundation in literature with those kinds of writers.

>>20999309
I have a bit of everything, but in my heart of hearts, I love Oxford.

>>20999491
How tf does oxford consistently attract the biggest, most arrogant faggots around? Oh right it's in Bri'ain

>>21006271
Kek

>>21007407
i'm not like this IRL tbf

>>21006327
>People like Buoy Cesares are cool authors
I hated his book at NYRB. There are much better authors.
> but you can't really build a foundation in literature with those kinds of writers.
What does that mean?

>>21006327
NYRB just uses their jewish money to bankrupt other small presses so they can purchase rights to texts they did not know existed until a smaller press published them

>>20999309
Neither, I'm an Adelphi kind of guy.

>>21006315
yes, because Mexicans are traditional to New York, and jews are modern development

>>21007702
>What does that mean?
Guess they're not big names in the Western cannon? Just a guess

>>21009380
You mean minor writers? Yea, I suppose so but NYRB's catalogue has a different purpose.

>>20999309
Whichever is cheapest in my local second-hand book store (that is assuming I couldn't get it from the library)

>>21004658
You can't tell that he's drunk?

>>20999309

I’m a standard e-books kind of guy myself.

>>21004644
This is the most American picture I've ever seen. The flag behind Urkel's head proves it.