/lit/ - Literature

please respond

Los Angeles
Raymond Chandler
a bunch of cool bookstores, a good book fair, and industry that buys up property rights to books and mercilessly slaughters them

>>6704680
Are you living the Fante / Bukowski lifestyle?

>>6704686
Not cool enough for that. I'm living the "chill guy who needs to get a new damn car" lifestyle right now

Utrecht
all shit
Miffy

>>6704638
>Home town (South Queensferry)
>Iain Banks
>The pub where Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Kidnapped (Hawes Inn)

>your city
Siem Reap
>best author from there
Probably me.
>/lit/-related things there
Nothing. The only literary thing here is a newspaper.

>>6704638
>Peterborough
>probably Yann Martel
>library, university, and these little free library things on the streets that people can take and leave books at.

Pretty sure those little mail-box libraries are plundered for good books by degenerates who keep or sell them to used bookstores though. Never anything good.

>>6704638
İstanbul
I don't know. Maybe Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.
Lots of libraries, museum-libraries and city itself

>Skien, Norway

>Henrik Ibsen

>Henrik Ibsen's childhood home and a nice library, that's about it

>>6704638

>The Chi
>Nelson Algren


(Carl Sandburg a shit)

>your city
chicago
>best author from there
nelson algren, studs terkel, sherwood anderson, ernest hemingway
>/lit/-related things there
so much important architecture, the art institute, the el, comically diverse neighborhoods, lake michigan

>Los Angeles
>Ray Bradbury!
>6M+ volume public library system, one of the biggest in the world!

>>6705845
>İstanbul
>Not Constantinople

>>6705863
Is Studs Terkel still well-known there? I like his book Working and I'm interesting in reading Race one day

>>6705875
You probably call Myanmar Burma, you filthy racist.

>>6704638
Kraków
Stanisław Lem (he was born in Lviv but after ww2 lived in Kraków)
The city tries to promote itself as a literature/culture center but obviously fails because it's first and foremost an eastern europe shithole.

>>6705882
>You probably call Myanmar Burma,
I do, as it happens.

>>6705875
>Doesn't know what Istanbul means
Back to /pol/, pleb

>>6705878
this very year, Working won a Chicago Reader poll to determine the one best Chicago book, so I guess people are still into it. I would guess any person who has been in the city more than ten years or so should probably know Studs, especially intellectual-types

>>6705875
Exactly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUsOaB5V2c

London
Probably John Milton
The Globe, British Library, Sherlock Holmes' house, that tavern where they set off from in The Canterbury Tales, platform 9 and 3/4

>>6705897
see
>>6705902

>>6705910
I know what it means. Why does it matter?

>>6705910
Don't care about dumb American showtune music. Istanbul was only the unofficial name until the around 1930s but the word itself is the Turkish form of the Greek nickname for it.

>>6705930
>Istanbul was only the unofficial name until the around 1930s
>It states the capital is İstanbul in 1876 constitution

Why so ignorant mr. butthurt?

>>6705859
Vetle?

>Warsaw
>based Stasiuk
>many great authors from 60s/70s/80s, crisis in 90s/00s, now it's getting better I suppose

>>6705891
czołem krakusie

Hannover (Germany)
The Schlegel brothers
Nothing that I'm aware of

>>6704638
>Nottingham, UK
>D.H. Lawrence
>Nothing.

>Detroit
>I donno, maybe Jeffrey Eugenides
>Not a lot to speak of besides some hipster altlit bullshit. John K. King Books is a GOAT bookstore though.

Lexington ky

Tiffany Reisz (erotica writer)

William shatner lives about 30 mins from here ( he did write TEKWAR) and Robert kirkman of the walking dead is always seen about.

Gouda

Desiderius Erasmus probably

We have a two or three libraries, that's about it.

The Best City
Kafka, Nabokov, Pynchon, Dostoyevsky

now give me my anon coolness points. I once knew an anon from NYC, does that also make me cool?

>>6704638
>Gothenburg, Sweden
>Karin Boye
>Absolutely nothing. Not reading is a virtue here.

>Ottawa

>Margaret Atwood

>Few cool independent books stores here. We have a writers fest every year, I got to meet Nick Cave a few summers ago

Ghent, Belgium

I'm guessing Hugo Claus

Err... the library's free of charge at least.

>>6706144
Vill du bli min vän?

>>6704638
San Diego
Doctor Seuss
There's probably a fuckton of Chicano literature I don't know anything about.

>Edinburgh

>Irvine Welsh, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott

>the largest monument to an author in the world (Scott Monument)

If you count enlightenment philosophers there's a shit-ton. Cool statues of David Hume and Adam Smith.

Toronto

I don't know. Marshall McLuhan? Malcolm Gladwell? That guy that wrote The English Patient?

Lots of libraries, I guess.

>>6706215
Going to Scotland this summer, and want to visit a few /lit/ places/sights/etc...

Any recommendations?

>>6705859

Jorgen?

>>6704638
Portland, OR
Linus Pauling (fuck chuck)

Bunches of californian 20-something rich kids moving on in to "write" living on hawthorne spending their money.

>tfw your formerly industrious city is slowly becoming reliant on californian trustfunders, getting a cupcake-based economy

St. John's, Newfoundland.

Probably me.

>>6706280
most likely

>Las Palmas

>Benito Pérez Galdós (get into some xix realism motherfuckers)

>Nothing but some contests and a shitty festival.

>>6706061
My nigga, came here to post about John King.

Tallinn
Tõnu Õnnepalu it is

>>6706275
YO fellow portland bro. I moved here from cleveland two years ago to interact with the sick local culture. Turns out everyone that was cool left, rent, food, COL prices going up. literally no locals in my apartment building.

Realized I'm part of the problem, going home to cleveland soon.

>>6706394
Yeah Portland is over. I hope once all the transplants leave it'll go back to how it was in the old days, where it was community centered and unhip. Maybe I idealize it but it feels like we lost the sense of place when we had such a great sense of place that everyone moved in

Stockholm
Per Anders Fogelström or August Strindberg, though I've read embarrassingly few authors from here.
Well there's this statue of Strindberg.

>Oxford
>Faulkner
>Square Books
he wrote a trilogy about my family, guess my last name.

Oakland
Jack London/Me
Big city, lot of grassroots activism things that I guess are interesting, culture, bay area vibe. This is probably the place I'd most want to be in California

>>6706806
Sarah?

>>6706806
d-damn

>>6706144
Bokmässan är väl i gbg?

>>6704680
What part of Los Angeles?

San Fernando Valley represent.

>>6706818
David?

>>6704638
>tfw from Paris

>>6706818
I just put Oakland into Google images

>>6705946
This bait? The name was only officially changed to Istanbul after Atatürk's Republic of Turkey was founded, exactly as >>6705930 said.

Anyways
>Boston
>Edgar Allan Poe
>Harvard University

South Huntington, NY
Walt Whitman (by default)
Walt Whitman birthplace landmark, a decent independent bookstore nearby

Saint Louis.
TS Eliot.
Does the river count?

Los Angeles.
meh.
...was gonna say Chandler, but he lived in La Jolla.

>>6706806
>intersectional oppression studies
>grassroots activism
>vibe
lmao

>Miami
>Carl Hiassen
>Book Fair every November

>>6707577
e before i
Like creighton and weigh?

>>6706899
you are one funny shit, you know that

>>6704638
>Dallas
>No one good
>it is a fucking wasteland

>Providence
>Poe, H.P Lovecraft

>>6704638
>NYC
>way too many to choose from
>ditto

>>6704638
LI
Pinecone
All the best & worst Murka's got to offer. Manhattan to my left, Hamptons to my left and right, Fire Island behind me, and so much white trash and south americans and eastern europeans and guidos and pinecones. Plus sharks.

>>6708207
so I guess Boston, Providence and Baltimore all claim Poe

>>6704638
Montgomery, Alabama.

I'm the best damn author this city's ever seen.

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald combined are a close second and their house is here. There's also a mad decent bookstore and Huntingdon College has the coziest library of all time (I used to go there to work in high school).

>>6704638
Indianapolis
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library

>ctrl + f
>no NOLA

Toole was pretty great, I've got 30 pages left in A Confederacy of Dunces

Not really sure what /lit/ stuff we have. I say New Orleans but I really live in a nowhere town 45 minutes away. New Orleans Museum of Art maybe? I've been a few times it's p cool

Sydney

Patrick White maybe? Not sure what city he lived in though.

Literally nothing

>>6708395
unfortunately he's not the only one

My home town would be Wordsworth.

In London I guess it would be... I don't know. It has always been a pit of filth that nobody really wanted to be in or from.

>Edmonton, AB
>Marshall Mcluhan, Brion Gysin both lived here as children. Margaret Atwood lived here for a year or two.
>almost a cultural backwater aside from the "arts" community. As Richler said, the boiler room of canada basically. Many good people here but anyone with aspirations moves away in their 20's.

>>6704638
Salinas, California

Gee I fucking wonder Robinson Jeffers lol

Jack shit except rapes and gang killings, and I guess you can write about that or something

Hongcouver.

Douglas Coupland. Alice Munro lived here for a bit.

Literally nothing. Scenery- and nature-wise this city is incredible, culture-wise it's a nonentity.

Deloraine
None
Nothing

Glen cove
Thomas Pynchon
Nothing besides that

>>6707577
Revue books?
Fellow LI bro here

>>6708733
Why do yanks say 'Noo Orluns' instead of 'New Or-leans'?

>>6706806

I live in San Francisco, and you guys are like townies to me.

I literally lived above City Lights Books.

>>6706876
hell yes my man. North Hollywood

Manchester, England
Anthony Burgess
A library

>>6708805
OH MANCHESTER, SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR

Augsburg
Brecht

However, I currently live in...

Singapore
Robert Yeo? I don't know, literature here kind of sucks.

Mexico City
Octavio Paz, probably, but almost every relevant latino author lived here for a bit.
Surprsingly god tier. Good book fair, the best university for humanities in Latin America, lots of history and an incredible amount of used bookstores stacked floor-to-ceiling.

London
Laurie Penny
There a ton of nice little bookshops but they're relatively overpriced.

>>6708895

don't worry about it
me
i don't know

>your city
Swansea

>best author from there
Dylan Thomas

>/lit/-related things there
There's the Kardomah Café where Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins and some other Welsh artistic types used to hang out

>>6706226
TPL is really great

>>6704638
Dunedin, NZ
Janet Frame would be the most famous, and about the first or second-most-famous from NZ alongside Katherine Mansfield and J.R.R Tolkien [KIDDING]. The city only has 120,000 people so there aren't many authors from here. I haven't really read her so I don't know if she lives up to her name or not. I've read about 1 page and I just got the impression that she was a schiz, which she was IRL.
Does good /mu/ count as /lit/-related?

>>6704638 (OP)
Dunedin, NZ
Janet Frame would be the most famous, and about the first or second-most-famous from NZ alongside Katherine Mansfield and J.R.R Tolkien. The city only has 120,000 people so there aren't many authors from here. I haven't really read her so I don't know if she lives up to her name or not. I've read about 1 page and I just got the impression that she was a schiz, which she was IRL.
Does good /mu/ count as /lit/-related?

>>6706969
Don't you know how to read? It was İstanbul in constitution of 1876. There was no offical name before that.

http://www.anayasa.gen.tr/1876constitution.htm

Drummondville (Québec)
Patrick Senécal
Nothing

>>6709024
The original document

>>6705882
The Burmese actually prefer Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi said the country's government changed the name without the people's input or support.

>>6709032
It uses Istanbul, but it doesn't proclaim it as the official name.

>>6709046
Holy shit. :DDDD

>fucking constitution says the capital is istanbul
>it is not the offical name anyway

>>6709050
De facto v de jure, my friend. Autism is how you win arguments.

>your city
Washington, D.C.
>best author from there
lots of political commentators and journalists, but I can't think of any big literary names that are actually from the area and didn't just move here after they found success and decided they wanted to rub elbows with senators/got a fancy government award. Michael Chabon? I believe he is from Georgetown, but I am not very big on his writing...
>/lit/-related things there
There are some popular independent bookstores in D.C. like Politics & Prose where spotting a major political figure is not uncommon. Obama and Hillary have made appearances there a couple of times, and I once saw Steve Scully, host of Washington Journal on C-SPAN, in the cafe area.

D.C. has the largest collection of Shakespeare writings in the world, the Folger Shakespeare library, which publishes these cheap Shakespeare paperpacks with academic annotations on one page and Shakespeare's actual writing on its opposite. Every public school in the area uses these and most bookstores, even chains like Barnes & Noble, will be overflowing with Folger Shakespeare products.

There's also the Library of Congress which is apparently the largest library in the world. They appoint the Poet Laureate of the United States, control the National Film Registry, and have a metric shitton of books which only legislators are allowed to check out.

>>6709013
>J.R.R Tolkien
Wasn't he from South Africa?

>>6709089
>and have a metric shitton of books which only legislators are allowed to check out
Are these specific kinds of books?

>>6706188

Fellow San Diegan here. This city has shit culture.

>>6709092
Yeah, I suspect >>6709013 was joking.

Palm Springs. Many.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Palm_Springs,_California

>>6704638
>Helsinki
>Tove Jansson

Milano

Dino Buzzati


Dunno, a lot of shit, the Duomo is the most iconic i think

>Mariposa
>Steven Leacock
>nice scenery

>>6709536
Damn bro, I'm jelly. Looks like the ideal setting for a 1980s coming-of-age movie.

Toulouse
Aimeric de Peguilhan

>>6704638
Asheville, NC
Thomas Wolfe
Black Mountain College

>>6706521
Compson?

>>6709013
Janet Frame's fucking great. She was cleared of her schiz diagnosis in late age and declared 'just artistic'. I don't know. I'm talking off a two year old memory here and typing on a phone so can't be screwed to load a new window to fact check. But I rec her stuff.

Chicago
Some poetry faggot or whatever.
Books and universities, same as anywhere else.

Great thread, OP.

>>6709536
>singer from Papa Roach is from there
Was Mariposa the last resort?

>>6709024
>After the creation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the various alternative names besides İstanbul became obsolete in the Turkish language. With the Turkish Postal Service Law of March 28, 1930, the Turkish authorities officially requested foreigners to cease referring to the city with their traditional non-Turkish names (such as Constantinople, Tsarigrad, etc.) and to adopt Istanbul as the sole name also in their own languages.[15] Letters or packages sent to "Constantinople" instead of "Istanbul" were no longer delivered by Turkey's PTT, which contributed to the eventual worldwide adoption of the new name.

>Hamburg
>Wolfgang Borchert

Worcester, MA
Nobody
Nothing

>>6710375
>Was Mariposa the last resort?

No... Well I suppose maybe it was...I just gave up on academic pursuits and started working on a farm out here.

>>6710436
They hiring at that farm? I'm ready to end my academic career too.

>>6709530
the Duomo looks like Anor Londo

>>6710443

Do it. Honestly I would do it again. Academia in it's current state is a farce. Get on a farm. You learn to love the physical labour, like a work or sled dog. Might not be satisfying for most people, but the stress of keeping up academic, or social endeavors was killing me faster than physical labour would. Now I read during my time off and shitpost. I'm considering going back to get my teaching cert. eventually.

detroit

probably elmore leonard, sadly
There's a huge bookstore and a pretty decent library, though most people use the latter just for the computers there

Birthplace: Mansfield, Ohio. Home to Louis Bromfield, aka shittier Hemingway who liked India instead of Spain

Current residence: Columbus, Ohio. James Thurber, who was pretty funny I guess

> your city
Sibiu, Romania
> best author from there
Philosopher Emil Cioran was born 10km away from the city, in the village of Rășinari.
> /lit/-related things there
Cioran's memorial home, I suppose. The village and its surroundings are very beautiful. To my knowledge, "Pe Culmile Disperării" (On the Heights of Despair), his first and probably most famous book, was partly written in that house.

>>6710550
>Columbus, Ohio
Oh, and I forgot this really cool bookstore. It's a repurposed house with thousands of neat books. Good place to go on a date, too since it has some really tight spaces

>>6705842
lmfao peterborough i used to live there i am so sorry for you man

>your city
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
>best author from there
Me and my book Selected Shitposts
>/lit/-related things there
Absolutely nothing

>>6708798
I'm in North Hollywood, too, near the Macy's.

>>6704638

Amsterdam
I honestly don't know. Probably zero given the shit books and films this country produces on international level.

>>6705804

>dit. kan het ook niet echt voor A'dam bedenken.

>>6706118

Erasmus is from Gouda.. the more you know!

> Buenos Aires

> Jorge Luis Borges

> Avenida Corrientes' small bookstores, el Ateneo bookstore, the whole city in general

Princeton, MA

Esther Forbes wrote Johnny Tremain on my street

We have a shitty library

Hamilton, OH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McCloskey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Hurst

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Warner
heh

>>6708784
George Bowering is the best writer from Vancouver. Lau, Purdy, Galloway and Kogawa are all notable.

Under the Volcano was written here, also notable.

You a pleb or something? We have a great music scene and pretty decent visual arts.

>>6711392


But a top-notch university. That counts.

Manchester, UK
Anthony Burgess
heart of the industrialisation, madchester, John Rylands library, universities

Latham, NY

Probably my brother

Umm... We have a library?

Terre Haute

Theodore Dreiser

>>6705845
Can you share your opinion of life in Istanbul? I visited once and I loved it so much that I'm considering moving there.

dfw tx

dfw man

dfw museum

>>6710313
Good to know, m8, I'll have to to check her out. You from NZ too?

>>6710313
Good to know, m8, I'll have to check her out. You from NZ too?

>>6711477
I have a friend who lives there for part of the year and he loves it more than any other place he's ever been to. It's lively, rich in history and culture, and there's great food all around; and because it's so big and there's so much to do and see, so many people to meet and places to explore, he never gets tired of it. I haven't had the pleasure of visiting, unfortunately, but if you liked it that much while visiting you'd probably enjoy living there.

>>6711797
>>6711477
Interesting. I saw this round the world travel show and most of Europe seemed kind of boring apart from the Balkans (ex-Yugo and Istanbul especially).

bump

>>6704638
>tampa
>jack shit

Mill Valley, California

No good writer's ever been born here.

Kerouac & Snyder flew through back in the wild days. Also wrt century 20 zeitgeist Lenin (Lennon & Yoko) bought a house here I think. I think a Jack London story was set here once.

This place isn't exactly impregnated with literary saviour, man. People are so fucking stupid here. I'm amazed I even know how to read.

>>6711371
Pic related was born in Amsterdam and died in Utrecht. He's pretty good too.

>>6713646
*savoir

Vigevano

Lucio Mastronardi

The local library I guess, nothing else

>>6713959
Qualcun altro di vigevano su /lit/

a posto figa

>>6713646
Hey isn't this where Don Carpenter lived for most his life?

Phoenix.

Stephanie Meyer is the only one I know of. Met her once.

Nothing really. In fact most bookstores have gone out of business.

Hartford, Conneticut
Mark Twain
Mark Twain's House

>>6711408

Under the Volcano was not written in Vancouver. It was written in a shack in a rural place in BC. George Bowering is the best you have? Srs? I YIE YIE. Sad times.

>>6707740
>Miami
Carl Hiaasen lives in Vero Beach now. His column in the Herald is also fucking terrible. Everything in it he has ever written has been dishonest and negative. It's as if he hates Florida.

Williamsburg VA. Toni Morrison is from a rural area not too far from here. I actually met one of her neighbors and she had pictures of her and Toni Morrison together when they were much younger. Pretty neat.

>>6714136
Does Williamsburg have some sort of tourist town nearby where people dress up in old-fashioned clothing etc?

>>6714103
Mark Twain is from Missouri. He died in Connecticut.

William Gibson lives around here somewhere.

Philadelphia, PA

uhhh, Ben Franklin?
Bill Cosby?
Tina Fey?

maybe some pulp writer named Goodis who wrote Shoot The Piano Player
or the guy who wrote Birdy, William Wharton.

William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound went to school here but it would be a stretch claiming either one of them.

>>6708345
Philadelphia has a Poe house too
he moved around a lot

>>6711477
I can't say anything because i have never lived in another city. City doesn't have a problem except crowd and traffic.

>>6710406
How is that related?

>>6714171
Are you more truly "from" the place you are born (which you have no control over) or the place you choose to live?

>Melbourne
>John Forbes
>i dunno, there's a lot of live poetry readings around brunswick

>your city
San Pedro, California
Where the getto meets the sea.

>best author from there
Bukowski

>/lit/-related things there
We HAD the L.A. city's oldest bookstore until it closed two years ago. Now all we have going for us is Shakespeare by the Sea

>>
>>6714210

Alternatively, I lived most of my childhood in Creswick
Normany Lindays, the cunt who wrote 'the magic pudding' is from there. later made into a movie with (holy shit, i saw this as a kid and didn't realise) John Cleese, Jack Thompson, Geoffrey Rush, Toni Colette

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Pudding_(film)

>Louisville, KY
>Hunter S. Thompson
>F. Scott Fitzgerald allegedly wrote parts of The Great Gatsby here.

>your city
Berlin, Berlin, Germany

>best author from there
Döblin or Fontane, can't think of anyone better right now

>/lit/-related things there
hella

>Tampere

>Lauri Viita

>>6714207
You're from the place that has the most impact on you.

>>6714216
Also Benjamin, Brecht and Feuchtwanger

>>6704638
Hamburg
Wolfgang Borchert, Harry Rowohlt, Heinrich Heine & Lessing (kind of)
Loads of publishers if you want your shit get published

Asheville
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe's house and O. Henry's grave and Black Mountain College

>>6714250
Oh and the asylum where Zelda Fitzgerald burned in a fire

>>6714250
No way! I play rugby for Asheville for the summer
Flat rock
Carl Sandburg
I'm here (bohemian /lit/izen)

>>6714189

You forgot this guy, althought he only lived there for his first two years.

There's also Chomsky.

>>6714322
Cool. I played rugby at UNCA really really briefly a few years ago.

>>6706045
You're from Nottingham too?

>>6714553
Fucking looks like it doesn't it m8

>>6713999
>>6713959
Who /Alessandria/ here?

Alessandria

Umberto Eco

>>6711366
nigga u srs? Nescio is from Amsterdam, you need to read his stuff now

>>6704638
Bayonne

George R.R Martin

>>6708796
>why do yanks
who knows, they are enigma

>>6708796
That's like asking why Brits pronounce town with the -wich at the end without the w.

Rouen
Flaubert
It looks like the village from Beauty and the Beast

Ridgefield CT
Mark Salzman? Roger Khan? Maurice Sendak? Actually a bit for a small town
Decent library, alright art museum at the Aldrich

>>6714109
Dollarton is right outside North Van. It's about a 20 minute drive from downtown; close enough.

>>6706899
>face2.png

>Adelaide
>No one. Recommendations, anyone?
>Bookstores, and that's about it.

>>6708738
Is Patrick White worth reading? How does he hold up in comparison with the rest of the world's literature canon? He seems like all Australia has as a saving literary grace, apart from Winton, whose prose I found painfully mediocre at times.

richmond, va

i dont know, wasn't Poe raised here? i know he was born in Boston

which is funny because i was born in boston but raised here. maybe im Poe

there might be, but i cant think of anything

>>6713646

Ayy, lmao. Also from Mill Valley.

And yeah, Jack London's The Sea-Wolf mentions Mill Valley on like the first page

Idk what the fuck is going on now there that's /lit/-related, it's mostly just close to stuff in SF/Oakland

>>6708733
hey I live an hour away from New Orleans too. weird.

Faulkner lived in New Orleans too and you gotta love his corncobs.

French Quarter has tons of awesome used books shops. Dauphine Street books is my favorite.

>>6708796
same reason people in New Orleans pronounce Chartres "Charr-tur" instead of "Shart." Cuz they dumb.

>>6704638
>Kilkenny, Ireland.
>Jonathan Swift

Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle. Monrovia, CA

>>6713646
>>6716963
Lot of Philip K Dick books take place in Marin. He lived there for a while.

>Cape Town
>J.M Coetzee

>Adelaide
>J.M. Coetzee

>>6717804
Fellow Adelaideian here. Which side of town do you live? Not meaning to sounds stalkerish, just interested, seeing as I find it rare for anyone near me to browse /lit/.

What would you recommend I read by Coetzee? I want to get a taste of actual local talent.

>>6704638
>Essen, Germany

>literally fucking no one

>literally fucking nothing

>>6710269
I like playing as Toulouse in EU4.

Can you speak Occitan? Or is it really a dead language.

>>6717897
I've not read a thing of his, but I've got Slow Man on my list, if only for the reason that it's set in Adelaide. I live in the Western suburbs. You?

>>6717930
I don't get this. Why is your city called Eating?

>>6717956
Oh, never mind then. Thanks for the reply.
I live in the northern suburbs.

Trivial fact: I attend the University of Adelaide,

>>6717804

Disgrace. It's more poignant if you're a South Afrifag though.

>>6717966
I think we've had this conversation before - >>/lit/thread/S5881435 - in this thread?

>>6717965
It grew a round an abbey called Astnidhi, the name changed over time into Essen.

>>6717980
God damnit, we have.

Are we going to venture further? Or are we going to stop it here in the unlikely case we happen to have met, or will meet, and things get awkward because we both post on a semi obscure Taiwanese digital image-posting forum?

>>6717992
(Btw, I for one am too curious to simply end it here)

>>6717992
Sorry, mate. I was reading. Well, it's the future now and I'm still at Adelaide uni; what courses are you doing and also you go first.

>>6718063
Bachelor of Arts and Teaching. Second year. Just finished up these courses:
1) CRWR 2009: Novels
2) HIST 2084: Russia
3) ENGL 2107: Tragedy
4) Obligatory education course

>>6718074
>Novels
You ever go to that Writers' Group?

>>6718074
>>6718083
Meet up ya pair of soft cunts

>>6718083
I did once. Can't remember when. I heard they were going to do a collaborative journal or something. You a part of that?

>>6709089
Tao Lin was born in NoVa

>>6705828
Steve?

>>6718089
Yessir. You're in this: www dot facebook dot com slash groups slash 676485135739765 slash members? I could post something in there, with like a code? Like 'Mishima' misspelt 'Mishma'? Or you could just go to the next meeting and we'll try to recognise the other each by our overbearing awkwardness?

>>6718128
It took forever getting that through the spam filters, soz.

>>6718128
I never joined that group for some reason. I'm a terrible fellow student.

You may have been there that one time I went. See if this jogs your memory:

I was the guy who rocked up late, saying I'd never been before. After some printed work was distributed and we'd had a flick through the pages, someone read something I think. Might have been poetry. Someone else shared something. Then I was asked if there was anything I'd like to share, so I said something to the effect of, "Yeah, I suppose," opening up my small laptop thing and reading some of my work. It was the one people commented on by remarking upon it's "bleakness", which is good I suppose, seeing as that's the tone I was trying to create. Then someone handed out some fantasy work, and we read that. Then someone handed out some sci-fi work, and we read that also. Then it ended or something. Can't really remember.

Does that ring any bells?
Sorry for the late reply.

Conversely, I'll just ask: jsut your name happen to be Alex?

>Salvador Díaz Mirón
>Not much, all /lit/ related events are held in the state's capital

>>6718153
Not Alex. I've created a temp gmail account: kindlefan99@gmail.com. Send me your name and I'll add you to the facebook group, if you want.

>>6704638
>Birmingham, UK
>Tolkien

Idk much about lit stuff tho. Just wanted to brag about Tolkien, soz.

>>6718187
All good. found the group and joined anyway. Check your temp account.

>>6714587
Beeston?