/lit/ - Literature

Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation

http://www.uiowa.edu/~c08g001d/Sontag_AgainstInterp.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Schopenhauer essays.

>>4102031

Her essays on photography and camp are better than this shit

>>4102054

Notes On "Camp"

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/sontag-notesoncamp-1964.html

E unibus pluram - David Foster Wallace

Walter Benjamin, everything's good.

http://www.theparisreview.org/letters-essays/6048/mister-lytle-an-essay-john-jeremiah-sullivan

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/magazine/a-rough-guide-to-disney-world.html?pagewanted=al

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/200401/rock-music-jesus?printable=true

And anything else by John Jeremiah Sullivan

>>4102065

DFW was better as a essayist

Death of the Author, if only to avoid the stupid argument that comes everytime authorial intent is brought up.
>>4102116
He was a good short story writer as well, but I feel that he lost it a bit as a novelist

Susan Sontag - On Photography

>>4102139
also Susan Sontag - Regarding the Pain of Others

>>4102139
It's yet more Sontag but The Pornographic Imagination is really worth reading if you're interested in the more erotic forms of literature. It's included with the copy of Story of the Eye I have

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>>4102156
>essays

>>4102039
'On Suicide' is one of my favourites.

>>4102172

They are essays.

The Doomed in Their Sinking - William H. Gass

do it now

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1972/may/18/the-doomed-in-their-sinking/?pagination=false

>>4102194
"Crane went sudden as a springboard. The Gulf gave nothing back. My mother, I remember, took her time. She held the house around her as she held her bathrobe, safely doorpinned down its floorlength, the metal threads glinting like those gay gold loops which close the coat of a grenadier, though there were gaps of course…unseemly as sometimes a door is on a chain…so that to urinate she had to hoist the whole thing like a skirt, collecting the cloth in fat pleats with her fingers, wads which soon out-oozed her fists and sprang slowly away…one consequence…so that she felt she had to hover above the hole, the seat (clouds don’t care about their aim), unsteadily…necessarily…more and more so as the nighttime days drew on, so that the robe grew damp the way the sweater on a long drink grows, soggy from edge to center, until I found I cared with what success she peed when what she swallowed was herself and what streamed out of her in consequence seemed me."

>>4102194

Did nybooks remove their paywall?

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jan/10/joy/

>>4102172
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the essays you wrote for school had a 1000 word limit ?
a text has more than 1000 words. That means it must be a novel.

>>4102139

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1973/oct/18/photography/?pagination=false

>>4102199

Someone should rip the site while the paywall is down.

>>4102024
Miring forearms

Vladimir Nabokov, Good Readers and Good Writers

http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/goodre.html

>>4102211
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do you not know the difference between an essay and a book?

http://observer.com/2011/04/does-the-novel-have-a-future-the-answer-is-in-this-essay/?show=all

Orwell Politics and the English Language.

>>4102328

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=449302

>>4102024
Rationale of Verse/Poetic Principle

>>4102356

Also the "Lion and the Unicorn"

"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them."

What's the best Joan Didion essay collection?

>>4102572
Orwell always had the best openers

Why does every intellectual feel the need to make that pose in a photo?

>>4102825
Well, how would you pose, twatface?

>>4102825

>>4102852
No cig, arms uncrossed, attempt at a mild smile.

Just read all of Montaigne.

>>4102869
To be fair, however, and knowing you, you'd probably just come off looking like a child killer, though.

>>4102875
I'll take child killer over pretentious faggot.

>>4102909
Yeah. Fair enough.

You know you'll always look good to me, though ;)

Recommend me film essays /lit/

>>4102994

Harlan Ellison's Watching.

It's a series, but they're all good.

In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

The Sontag is strong in this thread:
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/33dTexts/SontagFascinFascism75.htm

David Sedaris

come at me bros

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

>>4103264

>come at me

I love it when people immediately go on the defensive because they know how subpar their taste is. It's like winning a contest without even entering into it to begin with.

Toward the Creative Nothing by Renzo Novatore.

>>4102024
If you want to understand the Ivy League (also if you are stupid and didn't make it in, it will help you to feel better about yourself).

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-american-meritocracy/

are ezra pound's essays worth looking in to?

The Duration of Hell
The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights
John Wilkins' Analytical Language
Nine Dantesque Essays
A New Refutation of Time
Kafka and his Precursors

>>4102037
lol

guy was crazy

>>4102065
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>>4102123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

He was a fucking snob and an imbecile, a hollow moron with no direction or sense of meaning.

bump

>>4102994

I don't recommend Pauline Kael

>>4103235
>muh le generic marxist, anti white writer of female persuasion whom I hold on a pedestal.

fuck off. You're worse than the deluded fucks who think zizek will mean shit 100 years from now.

the hedgehog and the fox

>>4107406

What about Andrew Sarris?

I like Iron and the Soul by Henry Rollins.

http://www.theironandthesoul.net/2012/04/the-iron-and-the-soul/