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Curious what people's thoughts are on the likes of Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, Easton Ellis, Matthew Stokoe, etc.

George Miles Cycle? Blood and Guts in High School?

Any recommendations similar to these authors or books of theirs you've read?

>> No.18894510
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>transgressive literature
>"SEX POOPOO CUM 'IRONIC' PEDOPHILIA SEX SEXY SEXUALITY CUM UNDERAGE SEXXX EVERYTHING IS SECRETLY SEEDY SEX UNDERBELLY DECAY DEGENERACY SEX CUM SHIT FILTH CUM PORN PORNOGRAPHY SEX CUM VIOLENCE SEX UNLEASH THE SECRET VIOLENCE IN THE SEEDY UNDERBELLY OF SEX CUM SEXY SEXUALITY CUM RAPE SEX CUM SEX IS SECRETLY REVOLUTIONARY FUCK THE PATRIARCHY WITH CUM SEX DECAY ROT DECAY VIOLENCE I'M NOT GLORIFYING IT I'M JUST SHOWING YOU WHAT WAS REALLY THERE ALL ALONG SEX SEX SEX UNNERVING FASCINATION WITH UNDERAGE SEX PISS ON JESUS UPSIDE DOWN CRUCIFIX SEX PORN WATCH PORN START THE REVOLUTION BY WATCHING PORN CUM SEX BODILY FLUIDS BODILY SMELLS SEX VIOLENCE"
>mfw

>> No.18894563
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>>18894510
Fuck off, /pol/

>> No.18895016

Dull edgelord shit for horny girls

>> No.18895038

>>18895016
/thread

illiterate mutts BTFO

>> No.18895056

I know the "revolt against the modern world, be a conservative" narrative seems trite and overdone at this point, but when you see that this lot, which glorifies and reifies everything that happened from 1968 onwards, is somehow held up as "transgressive," the meme really does seem to have a note of freshness to it.

You want to be REALLY transgressive? Say you hate the United States Constitution. Say you disagree with democracy as a form of government. Say you believe in criminalizing both condoms and birth control. That's vastly more transgressive in 2021 than this pansexual pablum slop. That's stuff that will actually get you put on a watchlist, if you voice it out loud.

>> No.18895090

>>18894563
Reduction ad /pol/um.

>> No.18895613

>>18894510
>>18895016
i am not a/pol/troon who shits on everything published after blood meridian or whatever, but the anons above are basically right. cooper and acker are beyond fuckin lame. maybe it was cool and edgy back in the ’80s but it hasn’t aged well at all. any ’experimentation’ is kindergarten-level at best. a waste of my time

>> No.18895618

>>18894476
Read Bataille now

>> No.18895715

>>18894476
you're not allowed to be truly transgressive of any of the status quo--that leads to censorship
the books that take this label are just fancy smut--a whore dressed up as a lady.

>> No.18895835

Cooper's good though.
Read Frisk and The Sluts.

>> No.18895863

>cooper
actual good writer. Frisk is good
>Kathy Acker
I dunno, doubt it's transgressive because a woman wrote it
>easton ellis
eh, pass. seems normie-tier so haven't read
>stokoe
one book that is mostly dumb and just feels like it's trying to shock you with poop dtuff. didn't really like

there's way better transgressive lit that the shit you mentioned tho

>> No.18895952

>>18895863
>there's way better transgressive lit that the shit you mentioned tho
i hope you’re not gonna start shilling expat press in your next post

>> No.18896483

>>18894476
>QTDDTOT
is Requiem for a Dream a good read after the film?

>> No.18896505

>>18894510
This is as good a summary of Burroughs as any I've ever read

>> No.18896519

>>18896483
I read it before the movie, and the movie tries to honor it, but doesn't come close.

It's an outstanding book. And there's so much in it that didn't come across on the screen, that I think it would be a very good read despite having seen the movie.

>> No.18896552

>>18896519
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFQv8h8pNNg
alrighty then

>> No.18896693

Kathy Acker’s book was shit. Where she becomes a Muslim sex slave or whatever. And she hates her father

>> No.18896846

>>18896552
Well, admittedly, one shortcoming of the book is that you don't get to stare at peak Jennifer Connelly.

>> No.18897012

>>18895056
It's not so much about being "Conservative" that gets you in trouble per se, but rather. denying innate human equality in one way or another.

>> No.18898818

>>18894510
Fuck off, /pol/

>> No.18899509

>>18898818
this is the one time /pol/ is right

>> No.18899796

>>18894476
dennis cooper has managed to remain transgressive for decades ironically not because of his work's graphic content but because of his very unsentimental depiction of gay culture in a time where it is increasingly difficult to criticize at all. this is similar to how radical separatist lesbians have produced the most thorough critique of transgenderism

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No love for my best gal?

>> No.18899840

>>18896505
Burroughs wrote about giant centipedes so he's based

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>>18899813
>and *this* one's about a pedophile

>> No.18900705

Ellis is better than he might seem if you haven't read him -- just american psycho and less than zero though

JG Ballard's Crash is a better transgressive novel than anything on this list