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ITT; gay authors that are actually talented
pic related

>> No.1146472
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u mad

>> No.1146471
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Oh hey

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>> No.1146483
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I heard his husband was an alcoholic.

>> No.1146511
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Gay being not, perhaps, le mot juste, as it were, for his dear distinguished presence, but posting this, his little picture, nonetheless, all too indefeasibly.

>> No.1146515
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Gay authors are the best authors

>> No.1146517

Yield though I do to no-one in my admiration for Jorge Luis Borges, what gave you the idea that he was in any way homosexual?

Were you confusing buggery with blindness? Or were you confusing Borges with Lorca? Or were you trolling?

>> No.1146521

>>1146517
>Lorca
FUCK. Yeah, that's who I was thinking of. Well, Borges was questionable, at least.

>> No.1146526

>>1146515
agreed, gays know how to be cynical, classy and rational at the same time, and i like that!

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Augusten Burroughs

>> No.1146538
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Bi, but whatever.

>> No.1146535

Bolaño.
Don't say he wasn't after By Night in Chile.

>> No.1146577

>>1146535
That was the idea. He was mocking a chilean literature critic (Ignacio Valente), who is also a priest.

>> No.1146597
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the waste land is dedicated to the love of his life

>> No.1146624

>>the waste land is dedicated to the love of his life

The Waste Land is dedicated to "Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro", who was most definitely NOT the love of Tom Eliot's life.

I think you're thinking of the dedication to "Prufrock and Other Observations", which is dedicated to "Jean Verdenal, mort aux Dardanelles", which is arguably the love of Tom's life, and the subject of The Waste Land (at least in John Peter's reading of the poem)

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>> No.1146659

>>1146472
>>1146647
Wha-
Really?

>> No.1146662

estimating conservatively, 70% of awesome artists are at least a lil queer

deal with it dot gif

>> No.1146676

>>1146659

DFW I don't think so
Coupland, yes, is homosex

>> No.1146682

>Wha-
>Really?

Coupland yes, read his Wikipedia article.
DFW....no, that's trolling.

>> No.1146701
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And if you do throw in "Bi, but whatever," you've pretty much got everyone

>> No.1146725

>>1146701
Agreed. All amazing authors seemed to have questioned their sexuality or implied they were bisexual or homosexual in a few of their works.

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>>1146539
6/10.

Pretty much broke up with my ex because her favorite author was Augusten, but the dude can't write for shit.

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here's a fun obvi one :) i wonder how long til he leaves that bitch of a wife of his? he was not meant to live with woman.

>>1146624
>Jean Verdenal, mort aux Dardanelles

Shit. thank you /lit, yes I meant the prufrock dedication. I'm not sure of the proof behind the theory, but it seems to fit.

>> No.1146799

>>1146786
HOLOGRAM EYES

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>>1146701
damn skippy

>> No.1147002
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What does /lit/ think of Chuck Palahniuk? I stop by here every once in a while and have never seen him or his works mentioned. I wouldn't be surprised if Palahniuk posts are normally /lit/ trolls, and I also wouldn't be surprised if he's got fans here.

What say you, /lit/?

pic related, it's a gay author with talent.

>> No.1147013

proust ftw

>> No.1147019

>>HOLOGRAM EYES

Holy shit, did you get that phrase from "The Queen's Throat" by Wayne Koestenbaum? Or is it something people actually say?

>> No.1147043

>>1147002
Let's just say he sucks dick in more ways than one.

>> No.1147041

>>1147002
>palahniuk
>talent
lol

>> No.1147045
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Oh, hello there. Does anyone know where I am?

>> No.1147533

>>1147019
someone referenced it in an old thread with respect to, i think, that same picture and it stuck in my head forever

>> No.1147537

shakespeare

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>> No.1147574

>>1147557
Troll harder.

>> No.1147958

>>1146477
I can't tell whether he's delightful or annoying

If he would quit Twitter I'd know for sure

>> No.1147960

>>1147557
She's gay?

>> No.1148023

>>1147960
pffft she's a Mormon with a taste for barely-legal supernatural boys. Not interesting enough to be gay

>> No.1148056

>>1147002
He's such a mixed bag. I appreciate his minimalist, action heavy writing style and pitch black sense of humor, but his current stuff is too contrived. Instead of just writing a good story, he makes everything into some kind of a challenging writing assignment, which is great if he were doing it on his own to grow as an author, but annoying from a readers standpoint as it keeps pulling me away from immersion. Fight Club, Choke, and Diary were good. Haunted had some good shorts, but the main story that ran through it was awful. I haven't read Invisible Monsters or Survivor.

Also, my favorite gay authors are all beat generation. Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, etc.