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It's a crime that Tennessee Williams isn't discussed on /lit/ very often. He's a much better homosexual writer than Oscar Wilde (better at homosexuality and better at writing). Anyone else feel like he is a great writer? What is your favorite work by him? I'm going with “Desire and the Black Masseur,”

>> No.1101402

The Importance of being Earnest

>> No.1101410

>>1101402
man, are you trolling or did i really fail at communicating what i was asking for? (what are some good works by Tennessee williams?)

>> No.1101417

The Glass Menagerie was kind of interesting, I guess. I don't really like Wilde or Williams.

>> No.1101431

>better at homosexuality

Better at addressing homosexuality? Otherwise I can't tell what you're referring to (a "literary genre"?). What do you think of Capote?

>> No.1101439

>>1101431
Seconded. Capote is the best gay writer in English. His screenplays kick shit in as well.

Williams and Wilde are good, but Wilde was more witty than good at writing. Williams is brilliant, but I still prefer Capote.

>> No.1101440

Is that Lars Ulrich?

>> No.1101441

>>1101431
HE'S BETTER AT FUCKING GUYS IN THE ASS THAN WILDE WAS!

>> No.1101447

>>1101431
No i was just kind of joking. Didn't I hear that Wilde was only into frotterism or something? Then again, didn't wilde go to prison for being a homosexual? At any rate, I was joking. I haven't read anything by Capote. Is it worth a look?

>> No.1101461

>>1101447
Yes. In Cold Bold, Breakfast at Tiffany's, his journalism; it's all brilliant.

>> No.1101464

I like the one about the moths

>> No.1102208

>>1101464
Are you the retard that comes to bookstores and asks for books by saying "its the one about the moths" or other such dumbassery. I don't work at a bookstore, but I have heard this type of shit at bookstores all the fucking time. Google that shit son.

>> No.1102229

>>1101441

wilde didnt fuck guys in the ass so thats actually completely true.

>> No.1102233

>>“Desire and the Black Masseur,”

Oh please. The Glorious Bird did cannibalism and sodomy better in "Suddenly, Last Summer". If I had to pick a favorite short story of his I'd go with "Desire and the Black Masseur," but frankly I don't care much for his short stories. Or at least I prefer the ones that turned into slightly undramatic / vignettey plays, like "Vieux Carré"

>> No.1102238
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1102238

such works as the Glass Menage trois and a streetcar named rape AH YES I KNOW OF HIM My college drama society does the shit out of his work underrated indeed! BETTER THAN WILDE SERIOUSLY? HIT THE ROAD JACK