A HISTORY OF /lit/

[Anonymous No.22780731]

Various /lit/ publications have come and gone: The Lit Quarterly, Pinecone, The April Reader, and Ideology, to name a few. There have been collaborative works, like Coronameron, The /lit/ Annotated Moby Dick, Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra, and The Complete Works of God II. Some of these projects were one-offs, some were serialized. Some /lit/ projects, like Unreal Press, are still hanging on but are plagued by drama, and some, like &amp, seem to be rapidly in decline.

Also related are the solo writers of /lit/, composed of various namefags and shills who frequent the board: MNM-DR, John David Card, Zulu Alitspa, Jason Bryan, Frater Asemlen, Horia Belcea, Ogden Nesmer, Lewis Woolston, F. Gardner. There are also those who did not come from /lit/ but are /lit/-adjacent simply because they are discussed here so frequently: Mike Ma, R. C. Waldun, Bronze Age Pervert.

This thread is for the discussion of the history of /lit/ writing and the future of /lit/. Why have so many /lit/ projects failed and fallen apart, and what do you think is next for the scene? Does anonymity vs pseudonymity vs. the use of real names make a difference in the success or failure of these projects, and the way in which these projects are perceived? Of the works that /lit/ has produced, are there common characteristics and themes shared between them? Is there a definitively /lit/ style of writing? Has /lit/ produced anything truly great, and if not, do you believe that it will in the future?

[Anonymous No.22780803]

>>22780731
>Why have so many /lit/ projects failed and fallen apart, and what do you think is next for the scene?
Nothing.
>Does anonymity vs pseudonymity vs. the use of real names make a difference in the success or failure of these projects, and the way in which these projects are perceived?
Only a fool would attach their real name to /lit/
>Of the works that /lit/ has produced, are there common characteristics and themes shared between them?
No
>Is there a definitively /lit/ style of writing?
No
>Has /lit/ produced anything truly great, and if not, do you believe that it will in the future?
No, no.

[Anonymous No.22780806]

>MNM-DR, John David Card, Zulu Alitspa, Jason Bryan, Frater Asemlen, Horia Belcea, Ogden Nesmer, Lewis Woolston, F. Gardner.
If these would my peers I want nothing to do with this place

[Anonymous No.22780811]

>>22780731

which one is the anti vaxx guy

[Anonymous No.22780858]

>>22780811
Jason Bryan lmao, maybe also Gardner

[Anonymous No.22780872]

Horror’s Call is /lit/‘s opus.

[Anonymous No.22780884]

>>22780858
>Jason Bryan lmao, maybe also Gardner
Is that this guy?

[Anonymous No.22780932]

>>22780872
It’s amazing. Every book in the /wg/ pastebin has been a response to F Gardner’s series and never ending ads.

[Anonymous No.22780976]

>>22780884
Lmao I think so, what a fag

[Anonymous No.22781172]

>>22780858
Hartley is an antivaxxer too, kek

[Anonymous No.22781226]

>>22781172
Is it some righteous political stance or did his doctor advise him not to take it like the other guy

[Anonymous No.22781300]

>>22781226
Its just reactionary political faggotry

[Anonymous No.22781526]

So if I wanted to make my own /lit/ magazine just for fun how would I do it? I like how &amp is able to be printed specifically and I think it would be cool to be the editor of my own collection of /lit/ writings, posts, etc.

[Anonymous No.22781625]

>>22781526
No point. Youd just get doxxed and harassed by Hartley. He cant handle the competition

[Anonymous No.22781630]

>>22781625
Yeah you said that last time and I don't care. I'll ask again to be more concise. What program is he using to be able to allowed printed mags? Is canvas its own thing? Thank you.

[Anonymous No.22781647]

>>22781630
That's because he is the fake troll who harasses. Answer's magcloud btw

[Anonymous No.22781652]

>>22781526
1. make an email account for it on protonmail
2. make a thread requesting submissions (use warosu.org/lit to see how the other zines did it)
3. wait for submissions (don't do the &amp thing and go to r*ddit and other things outside /lit/ for submissions)
4. edit the submissions there won't be more than 4 or 5
5. pirate publisher or a similar program
6. put the submissions into it and add images
7. create a new thread with it linked and ask for more submissions

There's nothing more to it. You can do it on your own or ask people to help. Nothing complicated about it, just takes a fair amount of will power and love for doing it in itself.

[Anonymous No.22781662]

>>22781630
Printers (like businesses that print) just need a pdf from you and they will even provide you samples. It takes a heavy amount of attention to detail on your part so it doesn't come out terribly like the &amp pdfs. Sometimes simpler is better and forget trying to do downstream and way out of date million dollar extreme.

[Anonymous No.22781734]

>>22781630
>to be able to allowed printed mags
Holy ESL.

The other anons summed things up, but if you care about print copies, Magcloud isn't the only option. Shop around and see what prices are like for different services since things like dimensions, length, color, and paper quality will affect the price. Lulu has been used by a few /lit/ projects, but I don't know how cheap they go. The &amp magazines are $22 on Magcloud, which is stupid considering half the pages are just random images. Look for guides from the printer on how to handle things like bleed and size and stuff.

For other design programs there are Canva, Scribus, and InDesign, and probably plenty more. Canva is very basic but has a free plan. Scribus has more options but comes with freetard problems. InDesign is what a professional would use.

If you really care about the design, look for guides online and try different things out.

[Anonymous No.22781886]

>>22780731
>all /lit/ authors use normal people pen names and not stuff like Gaylord Hardcock or Shartqueefa Crapper

Why?

[Anonymous No.22781895]

Thank you for the replies ITT. When I attempt my own mag I expect it will be sloppy and short. I will call it issue 0 for the sake of the learning curve.

[Anonymous No.22782309]

>>22781734
Just use GIMP

[Anonymous No.22782411]

>MNM-DR, John David Card, Zulu Alitspa, Jason Bryan, Frater Asemlen, Horia Belcea, Ogden Nesmer, Lewis Woolston, F. Gardner.

What about the winner of the F Games, Robert James Cross?!

[Anonymous No.22782607]

>>22782411
I like how the amp faggots like RJC got so triggered that they made this fake image. LA won

[Anonymous No.22782644]

>>22782607

RJC released his book on Halloween before the F Games even started.

[Anonymous No.22783048]

>MNM-DR, John David Card, Zulu Alitspa, Jason Bryan, Frater Asemlen, Horia Belcea, Ogden Nesmer, Lewis Woolston, F. Gardner

what are they all up to these days?

[Anonymous No.22783096]

>>22783048
unfortunately still here, posting about themselves pretending to be other people talking about them. it's sad, really.

[Anonymous No.22783263]

>>22782607
L.A literally made this tho lol

[Anonymous No.22783265]

Is there a single lit author who doesnt use these faggy pen names?

[Anonymous No.22783289]

>>22783263
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.22783319]

>>22783096
like the &amp people

[Anonymous No.22783324]

>>22783265
instead of cool pen names?

[Anonymous No.22783602]

>>22783265

Robert James Cross is the dude's name. I googled him. He doxxed himself hahaha

[Anonymous No.22783612]

>>22781300
You seem to be reacting, this is not okay.

[Anonymous No.22783613]

>>22783048
Digging through other peoples' trash for bottles and cans to recycle

[Anonymous No.22783897]

>>22783265
What the fuck sort of question is that?

[Anonymous No.22783910]

These stupid History of /lit/ threads are just fake anti-&amp threads made by Ari and maintained by Gardner.

[Anonymous No.22783980]

>>22783910
The very first thread seemed genuinely aimed at discussion of the op, but all these copypasted threads that get reposted, yeah, it's just meant to prolong this same old shit

[Anonymous No.22784014]

>>22781886
F Gardner doesn’t. His name is literally Frank Gardner and he even openly broadcasts himself from his Chicago penthouse on his retard YouTube show. He doesn’t seem to care about people knowing who he is but he’s the irregularity of them all. Gardner making himself into a schizo cartoon character for his image is probably part of his extreme popularity here. He is like Forest Gump and openly just blabs about his personal life. Actually he feels more like a very retarded version of Frasier if he wrote books and was insane.

[Anonymous No.22784024]

>>22784014
He’s not the only one who uses his real name nor the only one that spams his own dox and address.

[Anonymous No.22784491]

>>22783910
I thought Ari and Hartley were working together now

[Anonymous No.22784537]

Any thread that mentioned Gardner in the OP was made by Gardner, because absolutely fucking nobody would ever voluntarily talk about this dysgenic loser unless prompted. Who is he?
Frank Gardner is a broke loser who has been shilling his “books” on this board since 2018. A long time, right? And he hasn’t committed suicide. And his parents still tolerate him at family dinners! Keep it up Frank! Merry Christmas!

[Anonymous No.22784580]

Call of the Arcade is a million times better than Call of the Crocodile and I don’t understand why that book is considered to be the best Gardner book. Gardner has a million other books and I’m not convinced Call of the Crocodile is even in the top 5 but it’s become fucking eternal on this board.

[Anonymous No.22784583]

>>22784580
How's Meghan?

[Anonymous No.22784599]

>>22784580
There’s this one YouTuber who regularly makes podcasts about Horror’s Call that’s really good. Chris Dw i

[Anonymous No.22784623]

>>22783613
Based not slaving for Mr. Sheckleberg

[Anonymous No.22784718]

>>22784537
What a cope. F Gardner’s books got to the front page of Reddit around a year ago and /lit/ exploded for the day. Gardner’s also a known richfag.
Gardner is otherwise a huge homosexual and into trannies. He has a YouTube channel and the videos I’ve seen posted are really revealing.

[Anonymous No.22784724]

>>22784623
>being a destitute garbage scavenger is based
Retard detected

[Anonymous No.22784750]

>>22780803
>Only a fool would attach their real name to /lit/

This, basically. I'm probably one of the most successful actual witers on this board; I've gotten multiple short stories and over a dozen poems published across various venues over the years. But I'd never namefag here in any meaningful capacity unless my reputation was sufficient that I thought I could get away with it.

I figure if I ever hit it REALLY big, like GRRM or Stephen King big, I might expose myself on here from time to time. At that point my reputation would be sufficiently impressive that association with 4chan wouldn't be able to dent it. But unless and until that day ever comes, there's no point in being a "4chan writer." You're just asking for trouble, and it's hard enough to get published these days as it is.

[Anonymous No.22784764]

>>22784750
You sound insufferable.
Submit to &amp.

[Anonymous No.22784767]

>>22784750
Unrealistic fears. I mean, look at F Gardner. F Gardner doesn’t seem to care about any of that and he’s gotten pretty big. Even normies seem to at least know what CotC is. Doesn’t seem like what you’re saying checks out in reality. Just post your books if you want.

[Anonymous No.22784778]

>>22782411
Checked. I love how the prize went to the book and not the author.

[Anonymous No.22784785]

>>22784767
>F Gardner doesn’t seem to care about any of that and he’s gotten pretty big. Even normies seem to at least know what CotC is.

No he isn't and no they don't. Gardner has basically zero reputation outside of this stupid website. Hell, he doesn't even have a reputation outside of this board. I never see CotC discussed in the "books that would make good anime" threads on /a/, or similar threads on /co/ and /tv/.

[Anonymous No.22784786]

>>22784623
>Based not slaving for Mr. Sheckleberg
Agreed. Have any tips for your fellow writers on what garbage is valuable?

[Anonymous No.22784790]

>>22784767
College classmates referencing Call of the Crocodile feels like the world has gone crazy desu

[Anonymous No.22784796]

>>22784785
F Gardner has literally gotten to Reddit front page. That is massive. I’ve also seen plenty of YouTube videos about Gardner on here.

[Anonymous No.22784807]

>>22784785
I go in /tv/ all the time and I know what freakin Call of the Crocodile is dude. I don’t know if you somehow don’t realize this but there have been Call of the Crocodile ads on this site for several years. It’s inescapable.
>inb4 Adblock

Yeah duh. But not everyone uses Adblock especially not Redditors, tourists, and summerfags, and especially not people on smartphones which is probably most people.

[Anonymous No.22784808]

>>22784718
Blow your brains out Frank, nobody is going to cry

[Anonymous No.22784816]

>>22784750
this is a prudent decision. stay the course anon.

[Anonymous No.22784818]

>>22784808
Why would Frank do that? He’s rich and famous and has hardcore gay sex. He’s living the homo lifestyle of all the literary greats.

[Anonymous No.22784827]

>>22784808
Everyone who reads this thread has to ask themselves... why do people come here just to antagonize Gardner and &amp? Like if this site is full of losers, why do you come here?

[Anonymous No.22784848]

>>22784827
Lots of people who want to be writers who see F Gardner’s success and seethe. It makes more sense to just be happy for somebody than be bitter.

[Anonymous No.22784856]

oob oob ob oob obby

[Anonymous No.22784862]

>>22784827
Why have you been doing this for almost 6 years? You have made this board a worse place, day by day. You deserve it and worse, you balding loser. The day you stop, I stop.

[Anonymous No.22784906]

>>22784790
No one is talking about Call of the Crocodile in colleges, you're delusional

[Anonymous No.22784924]

>>22784848
>success

[Anonymous No.22784931]

WHO ARE ANY OF THESE DISCORD FAGGOTS? FUCKING KILL YOURSELVES

[Anonymous No.22784933]

I bought my retarded little cousin Call of the Crocodile as a joke and said it was from Santa. The little shit loved it and his mom bought him every other book in the series. He def brings them to school too.

[Anonymous No.22785140]

>>22784933
I imagine boys indeed probably like Horror’s Call a lot. It’s basically schizo Goosebumps. But holy shit is it edgelord as fuck. I get that they might like reading F Gardner books but it seems wildly inappropriate considering all the fucked up gruesome shit that happens in the Gardnerverse.

[Anonymous No.22785173]

>>22785140
I read Call of the Crocodile and it read like a straightforward Stephen King novel with the exception of all the trippy stuff later on. The plot just went off the rails toward the second half. Probably the most meta book I’ve ever read in my life. The out of body psychedelic chapters were really interesting but it was jarring.

[Anonymous No.22785177]

>>22785173
Hi Frank, your parents are really disappointed by your life choices, and so is Kolleen

[Anonymous No.22785211]

>>22785173
>Stephen King said his biggest regret as an author is that he didn’t write Call of the Crocodile

[Anonymous No.22785246]

>>22785177
>t. endless crabbing /lit/ pseud

[Anonymous No.22785252]

>>22785246
achievement invites jealousy

[Anonymous No.22785266]

>>22785252
One man's achievement is another man's fart in the wind...

[Anonymous No.22785269]

>>22785252
Taking advantage of the fatherly feelings of Frank Gardner Sr, crooked lawyer, is hardly an accomplishment ! Hahaha

[Anonymous No.22785284]

>>22784491
Yea they are

[Anonymous No.22785401]

>>22784933
Tell him to make a video of it. He would literally become memed to fame on here like Gardner himself.

[Anonymous No.22785428]

Everything about F Gardner makes him sound like a real life Patrick Bateman. But the /lit/ playboy version of him. It’s autistic and I love it.

[Anonymous No.22785430]

>>22785428
You mean the gay version. Reminder F. Gardner likes trannys. I haven’t forgotten the posts and neither should anyone else.

[Anonymous No.22785485]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CO14YTVX42s&pp=ygUJRiBnYXJkbmVy

[Anonymous No.22785518]

>>22785485
fuckin kek

[Anonymous No.22786055]

>>22784906
You really wish this were true, don't you? If I provided evidence that revealed your assertion to be false, it would upset you, wouldn't it?

[Anonymous No.22786164]

>>22786055
Give evidence then, lol

[Anonymous No.22786193]

>>22781734
>$22 on Magcloud, which is stupid considering half the pages are just random images.

You know nothing about printing. $22 is reasonable

[Anonymous No.22786207]

Why’d you delete so many of your posts Frank?

[Anonymous No.22786273]

>>22786207
No other place on the internet has so many interesting people in single threads like these ones

[Anonymous No.22786308]

>>22786193
I'm not saying the pricing is bad for what it is, I'm saying what it is is a waste. Count up how many pages in any issue of &amp are superfluous. I ran through 012 and came to about 40 superfluous pages out of 96, counting pages that had either no text or unimportant text (pic related). Maybe some photos are sent in by anons, or you could make a case for some of the title/buffer pages, but it's definitely an excess. That's without considering other things like pages with very little text or sparse layouts, since you could at least make sane stylistic arguments for those.

Lulu has a price calculator with a lot of different options, so I'll compare using their cost per magazine. Everything here is A4 with paperback binding (same as what I've seen for old issues of &amp that have been posted), 70# coated white paper (only option), and glossy cover (cover doesn't actually affect the price). It gives a similar price to Magcloud:
>96 pages
>color
>$21.11 USD

Being conservative and chopping 30 pages off:
>66 pages
>color
>$15.22 USD

Now for black and white without chopping pages:
>96 pages
>black and white
>$7.20 USD

Black and white with chopped pages:
>66 pages
>black and white
>$5.66 USD

That's a nearly $15 difference because the issue is padded out with a bunch of full-color photos probably ripped right from /p/ or /3/. Is pic related worth it?

[Anonymous No.22786345]

>>22786308
>That's a nearly $15 difference because the issue is padded out with a bunch of full-color photos probably ripped right from /p/ or /3/. Is pic related worth it?
Pretty cool style though? I'd buy the big full colour magazines if I could afford it!

[Anonymous No.22786377]

>>22786345
T. Jason Bryan, bona fide retard

[Anonymous No.22786416]

>>22786377
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.22786417]

>>22786308
The pictures are an essential part of the magazine, you know nothing about aesthetics and visual balance

[Anonymous No.22786444]

>>22786417
>The pictures are an essential part of the magazine, you know nothing about aesthetics and visual balance
"why is this art magazine full of art"

[Anonymous No.22786452]

Every single person who posted in this thread, except for me, is a complete retard.

[Anonymous No.22786470]

>>22786452
Nah youre the biggest retard

[Anonymous No.22786490]

>>22786444
I think you mean
>why is this literary magazine full of shitty art?

[Anonymous No.22786581]

>>22786273
This is genuinely an interesting phenomenon. These people only qualify as celebrities because they do the kinds of things that celebrities do despite not having any kind of audience or fanbase, no visible reward whatsoever. Is there any microniche e-celeb subcommunity with a higher effort=attention ratio than the so-called /lit/ renaissance? Only one of them has ever gotten attention outside of /lit/ and he was absolutely unquestionably assblasted. Sure there are kids streaming roblox on youtube with 0 viewers, but they aren't grown men fussing over their precious little projects for months and years on end, dumping money into ads and commissioned art and hurling accusations and threats at each other, only to get two comments from someone else in their writing circle. It's like the inverse of that meme about being famous for being famous, the pinnacle of the /lit/ auteur is "not famous for being not famous."

[Anonymous No.22786614]

>>22786581
It's a really small bubble, and way smaller than /lit/ as a whole. All the talk makes it look like something kind of big or representative of the board, especially the "/lit/ renaissance" misnomer, but these people/projects are hardly even mentioned on /lit/ outside of their respective threads, at best a passing mention or somebody's attempt to shill. It's the same one or two dozen guys talking each other up/down.

Even /lit/ hardly gives these things any attention.

[Anonymous No.22787168]

>>22781526
>>22781630
Canva is mainly what the editor uses for his work, though I would strongly advice against it. Canva is fine if you need to slap together a bake sale advert or a "Get well soon!" card, but is far from fit for a magazine. Both the editor and Atlas were able to get by on having an eye for design, but each of their designs fall flat on anyone who also has an eye for design. A mishmashing of clipart and AI art is just about as offensive to the senses one graphic designer can be to another, and, unfortunately, that seems to be the limit to what Canva is capable of.
Another large issue with &amp's usage of Canva is that they are attempting to do three distinct jobs in a program that is only partially capable of each. Image manipulation should be done in a program like Photoshop or Photopea, vector creation should be done in a program like Inkscape or Illustrator and the actual page formatting and text dump should be created in a program like InDesign or Scribus if you hate yourself.
I know most of those are Adobe products and together account for a massive monthly bill that you're probably not a good enough goy to pay for, but I would advice you learn them. They are the industry standard for a reason—also, I've heard that there's a thread on /gd/ that will help you avoid the steep asking price hint hint.

>>22786581
>It's like the inverse of that meme about being famous for being famous
It's the 4chan curse. You will accept your anonymity or you will have it thrust upon you. It's something that that every upstart in every creative general eventually falls victim to.
You can call it "crabbing" if you want, but this is no place for named individuals who are only here to fashion twenty years of history that they were largely uninvolved with into a stylish accessory that will catch people's eyes.

[Anonymous No.22787317]

>>22787168
Thanks for the info but &amp is jank and embarrassing, frankly. Looking to do something nice.

[Anonymous No.22787573]

>>22786614
/lit/ as a whole is 30 people at most so no matter how small the Resistance is, it's by definition representative desu

[Anonymous No.22787679]

>>22786308
Lmao this is clearly the same anon who was breaking down the KDP costs and profits of RJCs book. Based autism

[Anonymous No.22787833]

>>22787317
Please stop talking about it and do it. I made &amp years ago, and you’re still here talking about doing something better.

[Anonymous No.22787867]

>>22787833
Please stop shitting up the threads and actually work on &amp. You’ve done nothing in the past six months besides scam “publish” a typo-riddled book with a shitty cover.

[Anonymous No.22787940]

>>22787867
I owe you nothing. The magazine was delegated to an editor, and he will drop it when it’s ready. You’ve done nothing in the past six months period, at least I made an effort.

[Anonymous No.22787990]

>>22787940
And frankly, not much submissions would come rolling in if all one's contemporary impressions of &amp are stagnant threads of terrible drama, and said threads all feature fake submission email addresses...

[Anonymous No.22788006]

>>22787679
Il s'appelle Ari, évidemment

[Anonymous No.22788028]

>>22787573
The big threads get near or above a hundred unique IPs. And like I said, there's very little discussion of these projects outside of their circle of peers. They're silo'd off from everything else, and when they are discussed externally it's not about the writing, but someone desperate to be "published". It was easier to see browsing through the archives before the generals and fake threads got busy.
>the Resistance
Please be bait.

>>22787679
Nah, the RJC breakdown wasn't me, though I did the numbers on Tales of the Unreal when they released the last one.

[Anonymous No.22788030]

lit tuined to shit after we got targetted by reddit refugees, /pol/cels and election tourists.
They viewed /lit/ as some kind of "brains of 4chan" that must be conquered. Inevitably they started "Reeeeeing" about intellectualism, the arts and literature in general. this scurred away all the useful /lit/ posters.

This place is a shell of what it once was and its the fat fucking mods fault.
also, nobody gives a fuck about the 'zines.

[Anonymous No.22788048]

>>22788030
>also, nobody gives a fuck about the 'zines.
That's what makes the forced meme drama about the shittiest one yet even more transparent. And even a step further, this op gets posted over and over so they can have 2 threads with the same people pretending to not be themselves accusing each other of being themselves. What a waste of their time.

[Anonymous No.22788069]

>>22788030
moot wanted to shut down 4chin, but the senior mods wanted to take money from "alt-right"/"culture wars" pudits, pod-casters, influencers etc to let their approved content slide through the moderation team and ban/delete non "alt-right" threads and posts.
It was the first time the mods ever had the opportunity to make money from 4chan, after years of working for free, so moot felt bad about shutting it down, especially as he was going to work for google for serious $$$.

I understand why moot did this, but he really should have shut the whole site down.

[Anonymous No.22788074]

>>22788069

[Anonymous No.22788078]

[Anonymous No.22788079]

Here's the last five-ish years of posts-per-day data for /lit/ from 4stat.io. That big spike was the Zizek-Peterson debate. It doesn't go very far back, but it's interesting if you compare it to a board like /mu/ which peaked around 2013 and has been dropping off since then.

[Anonymous No.22788084]

>>22788079
/mu/ is dead now.
They killed it.

[Anonymous No.22788087]

>>22788079
>>22788084
Yeah, you can't capture quality of discussion with one of these charts.

[Anonymous No.22788258]

>>22787679
Pretty sure RJC breakdown was Atlas, I could tell because the posts were so contemptuous and aggressive

[Anonymous No.22788467]

>>22787833
>>22787940
Not the editor

[Anonymous No.22788494]

>>22788028
What were the numbers for Tales of the Unreal?

[Anonymous No.22788525]

>>22788494
>>/lit/thread/S22474763#p22480519
>sold 100+ copies of Tales 1
>KDP takes 40% plus printing cost, $1.00+$0.012/page, which at 137 pages gives $1.00+$1.644.
>$8.99 x 0.6 - $2.644 = $2.75 per book.
>If it was just 13 authors splitting $275, that's pretty much $20 each.
But of course there are other costs, and people who edit, so with things like ads they run in the red. The Unreal poster said their current plan is to pump any profit back into ads if they ever reach that point.

[Anonymous No.22788573]

>>22788525
>selling
the cringe

[Anonymous No.22788589]

>>22788048
>about the shittiest one yet
&amp? Or &non?

[Anonymous No.22788621]

>>22788079
The great bot flood of 2020 and the uninterrupted decline ever since then

[Anonymous No.22788721]

>>22788079
People just don't read anymore.

[Anonymous No.22788833]

The Unreal Bros are some of closest friends (irl) and not even I know what the fuck is up with the next release

[Anonymous No.22788926]

>>22788833
judging from those digits...
it's gonna be great

[Anonymous No.22789010]

>>22788833
>>22788926
Fellow bros spotted in the wild! The Unreal Resistance is the last bastion of the literary lifestyle's former glory...Unite!

[Anonymous No.22789134]

>>22788258
Thats her Adderall fueled sperging.

[Anonymous No.22789321]

>>22788833
It’s gonna be some retarded sci-fi shit

[Anonymous No.22789495]

>>22789321
KEWL
if reasonably priced,
i pledge to buy 10 copies

[Anonymous No.22789618]

>>22788525
That doesn't sound great but it doesn't sound terrible either
Does anyone have numbers for individual authors?

[Anonymous No.22789808]

>>22785284
Based alliance

[Anonymous No.22789854]

>>22788589
Is &non still happening? Any updates?

[Anonymous No.22789953]

>>22786614
>>22786581
If I didn't have someone telling me to kill myself every single day, there would be no reason to finish my 3rd book, namaste

[Anonymous No.22790214]

>>22789854
I can’t do it anymore eferyone hates me and I’m too tired to finish it I’m sorry It doesn’t Matter

[Anonymous No.22790316]

>>22790214
Sounds like a bitch fucked around and found out (Ari will never love you).

[Anonymous No.22790321]

>>22790316
Why would you say that?????

[Anonymous No.22790325]

>>22790316
Why would you even say that are you him???

[Anonymous No.22790328]

>>22790321
You fucking know exactly why.

[Anonymous No.22790330]

>>22790328
Why are y ou doing this???

[Anonymous No.22790338]

>>22790330
You forced my hand.

[Anonymous No.22790342]

>>22790328
Why would you say that why,???

[Anonymous No.22790343]

>>22790338
How???

[Anonymous No.22790348]

>>22790338
W ha t do y ou mean,?

[Anonymous No.22790350]

>>22790343
Keep asking questions you already know the answers to.

[Anonymous No.22790354]

>>22790350
Who are you I don’t know you

[Anonymous No.22790359]

>>22790354
It’s me, girl. If you saw me in real life, you’d understand.

[Anonymous No.22790366]

>>22790359
Why are you prsetendimg to be Ryan? You’re not him you’re not him he said you’re Ari pretending to be him

[Anonymous No.22790373]

>>22784750
>one of the most successful actual writers on this board;
Semicolon-kun, Tao Lin posted here, and even Waldun has published more novels than you

[Anonymous No.22790416]

>>22790316
How do you know??? Why would you even say that????

[Anonymous No.22790443]

Hannah, there is a demon trying to get you, it lurks on /lif/ waiting to hurt you. Please leave.

[Anonymous No.22790452]

>>22790416 Post trip

[Anonymous No.22790467]

The Moby-Dick publication showed to me that if enough anons came together and worked on something they're passionate about you could have a very good annotated edition of some book. I would love to do a Dubliners one with some anons if we took it seriously.

[Anonymous No.22790575]

>>22790467
Me too but I think maybe I'm not funny enough my jokes on here never get (You)s

[Anonymous No.22791424]

>>22790467
Dubliners doesn't need it lmao. Ulysses and FW do though.

[Anonymous No.22791431]

>>22790467
Where can I find the Moby Dick book? Can someone post a link?

[Anonymous No.22791590]

>>22791431
it's on libgen, called:
Moby-Dick: A /lit/ Annotated Edition

[Anonymous No.22791701]

>>22791590
>Moby-Dick: A /lit/ Annotated Edition
nope

[Anonymous No.22791991]

>>22788030
Botting and slides had been noticeable before, but Them et. al. went full bore from 2013 & Gamer Gate through 2016 and the pol exoduses. It's ubiquitous and no board is immune to it. GG was remarkable solely for demonstrated compromised jannification sitewide and beyond to any number of forums simultaneously. Eternal September is always a thing-- it's the rate of old and ancient fags returning and the quality thereof dropping off that's significant. Earlier you go, the more arcane knowledge dumps from knowledgeable anons was possible, because the poster base had to go and scour library catalogues IRL (as in actually read and had read).

>>22788079
>peaked around 2013 and has been dropping off since then

Xi's ascension in Red China and botting becoming more of a problem are related.

[Anonymous No.22792063]

>>22791991

[Anonymous No.22792211]

>>22791701
It is , schizo (you don't need to enter every word)

[Anonymous No.22792225]

>>22791991
>Xi's ascension in Red China and botting becoming more of a problem are related.
Crazy how Xi's evil plot to destroy 4chan coincided perfectly with Biden's merger of the state and tech companies during the 2020 election. Those vile Chinese truly hate us for our freedoms. Nothing would make me happier than to die in a futile forever war against them in the name of our glorious pluticrats.

[Atlas !!5PU6NZNFdkc No.22792260]

>>22790452
You always say post tri p like I’m lying ???

[Anonymous No.22792748]

>>22790338
Evil Canadian Wizard.

[Anonymous No.22793236]

Test

[Anonymous No.22793540]

Got fried chicken for 1/2 price yesterday, was amazing too

[Anonymous No.22793713]

>>22792748
Ari isn’t evil

[Anonymous No.22793744]

>>22793713
Good to see people trying to make things right

[Anonymous No.22793745]

>>22793744
What do you mean??? He isn’t evil he has a good heart

[Anonymous No.22793747]

>>22793713
Wasn't talking about Ari.

[Anonymous No.22793793]

>>22793747
You think it’s Ryan

[Anonymous No.22793928]

The magazine is dead and we're still talking about these fucking discordfags?

[Anonymous No.22794539]

>>22793928
Ryan told me it's coming out late this month hopefully in time for christmas, but there's drama in that the new guy aitserp wants to bring in his side bitch and transition the project to her Adobe Illustrator subscription

[Anonymous No.22794543]

>>22794539
I honestly hope every single one of the people you mentioned goes blind

[Anonymous No.22794666]

>>22794543
Damn... ice cold.

[Anonymous No.22795190]

>>22788069
>he really should have shut the whole site down.
leave? lmao there's nothing more pathetic than someone like you

[Anonymous No.22795289]

>>22784750
The fact you post pictures of little girls in the japanese anime style proves that nothing you say is of substance regardless of your technical ability. You also are not complete as a human being and are either disabled or malnourished or otherwise hormonally fucked, based on the arrogance of this post. The fact you would even try to rest on your made up accolades anonymously is retarded. Deeply retarded.

[Anonymous No.22795374]

>>22795289
Deep-seated jealousy from a discord fag who has no idea what website he's on. Ignore or lambast. Your choice.

[Anonymous No.22795377]

>>22794539
Aitserps side bitch is a tranny, thats his thing

[Anonymous No.22795521]

The collaborative projects are nice for our own libraries, but if any /lit/ collaboration will see breakthrough success via /lit/ rather than in spite of it, it will come from a closer knit group of authors that pick up trend early or start one themselves. Anons who have cultivated their talent. I've had some great interactions on /wg/ in that regard.

[Anonymous No.22795720]

>>22795377
Actually it’s a ladyboy, considerable difference.

[Anonymous No.22796669]

>>22793793
Yes.

[Anonymous No.22796679]

>>22795289
anime website newnigger

[Anonymous No.22797366]

>>22796669
He said it’s not him in any of the threads, it’s Ari pretending to be him. I don’t know what’s true

[Anonymous No.22797502]

>>22795720
gay either way, lmao

[Anonymous No.22797585]

&amp 19????

[Anonymous No.22797606]

>>22797585
No one cares

[Anonymous No.22797610]

Making fuck all progress on anything creative, not yet settled into my new place... making some nice roasts lately.

[Anonymous No.22797613]

>>22797610
Fuck off

[Anonymous No.22797655]

>>22797613
>he doesn't have a roast

[Anonymous No.22797669]

>>22797655
These threads arent your personal blog. Fuck off

[Anonymous No.22797767]

>>22790316
How do you know he never will you’re not him it can’t be real it’s not real

[Anonymous No.22797779]

>>22797585
when?

[Anonymous No.22798410]

>>22797610
I asked. I care.

[Anonymous No.22798458]

I'm gonna write the next big pop fantasy epic, blow up, and act like I don't know nobody

[Anonymous No.22798498]

>>22797610
kiss me arse mate. No good disrespecting an honest bogan like me. Cracking open a smashin fosters to honor the deceased mate.

[Anonymous No.22798500]

>>22798498
shut up pig before I make a roast out of you and your fat wife too

[Anonymous No.22799120]

>>22797669
You're too high strung buddy, chill out

[Anonymous No.22799250]

>>22799120
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.22799272]

>>22799250
Can't do that, I'll miss out on the free coffee!

[Anonymous No.22799882]

>>22786308
The art isn't superfluous though.

[Anonymous No.22799983]

>>22799882
crabs

[Anonymous No.22799998]

>>22799983
How am I a crab? I'm literally defending the art choices in amp

[Anonymous No.22800001]

So glad all of these are dead.

[Anonymous No.22800006]

>>22799998
Was agreeing with you and you are dealing with the crabs

We're in a sort of weird art world at the moment, everything has to be corporate or it basically doesn't exist

[Anonymous No.22800009]

>>22800001
What is filling the void?

[Anonymous No.22800015]

>>22800009
&non

[Anonymous No.22800024]

>>22800015
Who does &non?

[Anonymous No.22800078]

>>22800006
It's not just that. Anons often don't know how to define what success ought to look like. Is it money, readership, critical acclaim, art for its own sake or is it something else like rebellion? I think /lit/'s work can and will vary in these goals. But the crabs are not always made by their lack of successes, often it is the fear of what success will change in their lives. That includes those around them. You can already see the lamentations ITT about the history of the board and the website overall. Anons can be very sensitive about what is at stake.

[Anonymous No.22800080]

Canadian lit is so totally and completely dead, I can't think of any way to participate... you pretty much need to be connected or hooked up via the establishment to promote your pro-black books here, then you're set

Being an outsider, feels like I would be lucky to get 3-4 readers of any work I do, but even with this knowledge that nobody will ever read my shit... I still have to write to get these stories and visions out of my head

[Anonymous No.22800084]

>>22800078
Success, to me, is being able to do art and survive somehow

Got $36 until payday, going to get some chicken and liquor

[Anonymous No.22800129]

>>22800080
This thread isn't about Canadian lit. It's about the history of /lit/ projects. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.22800135]

>>22800129
Considering at least two of the people you mentioned are Canadian, maybe it is you who should be doing the off fucking?

[Anonymous No.22800341]

>>22800080
Always has been.
F.P. Grove, Grandbois, Arcan, uhh…

[Anonymous No.22800435]

ISSUE 19 WILL RELEASE THIS WEEK OR NEXT WEEK

[Anonymous No.22800465]

>>22800435
Source?

[Anonymous No.22800523]

>>22800465
the editor's assistant can be seen discussing it in a recent discord post

[Anonymous No.22800573]

>>22800523
Post caps

[Anonymous No.22800639]

IT'S UP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reHZf2oJiFk

[Anonymous No.22800801]

Doing a roast tonight, anyone else?

[Anonymous No.22801052]

>>22800435
The &amp #19 release thread is going to be a drama filled shit show and any actual discussion will be drowned out

[Anonymous No.22801093]

>>22801052
Well just be sure to make a long post with well thought out reviews, I will be doing the same.

[Anonymous No.22801129]

>>22801052
That's just the way it is. We need to do our part and drown out the negative press. In the #18 threads I wrote something like 10-12 positive reviews and just samefagged them all without anyone noticing. If each of you do the same then no one will care about the drama.

[Anonymous No.22801194]

>>22801052
The new release thread is going to be clogged by Atlas schizoposting and having meltdowns over Ari and Ari shitting on Hartley and spamming screenshots of that fucking GoogleDoc

[Anonymous No.22801353]

>>22801194
Sounds fun!

[Anonymous No.22801537]

>>22801052
It'll be even worse when they realize the whole issue is dedicated to the life and work of Lewis Woolston.

[Anonymous No.22801550]

>>22801537
God I hope so

[Anonymous No.22801615]

>>22801194
We'll never get the Best Of &amp at this rate

[Anonymous No.22801944]

Bump

[Anonymous No.22802009]

19 releases tomorrow

[Anonymous No.22802019]

Anyone got a link of the pastiche lit did of French existentialist writing? IMO it was by far the best lit has produced, but it’s the most forgotten since it was completed un under 24 hours.

Don’t remember the name but it had a Gallimard type cover

[Anonymous No.22802073]

>>22801052
A bit like these threads, but at least with something to show for it, a reason for existence, no?

>>22802019
« L'Anomie ou la Tumulte des tapirs »
https://lampbylit.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Lanomie.pdf

[Anonymous No.22803264]

>>22802009
Doubt

[Anonymous No.22803323]

>>22801537
How's ol' Lewis hanging in there lately?

2023 feels like such a post-COVID hangover year.

[Anonymous No.22803335]

Canada is a place where the establishment controls everything, the culture here is just so conformist and lame. The only thing you can do to rebel is become a crackhead bike thief, but then you're just put on the road to a poisoned drug death as the government's way of eliminating these misfits.

If you have money, nobody dares to step outside the "librul vs conservitard" paradigm here, you're just supposed to conform and be a totally normal person with normal opinions that are allowed to be talked about. This country goes along as normal if you believe in the entire theatre our society uses to keep people in line, and it works on most people. As a result, our culture doesn't produce any organic or real art, everything is so over-the-top canned, fake, and gay, as to not upset your grandmother's sensibilities. Feels like 2023 was totally absent of any real Canadian literature or art, where are the schizos shouting about the enormous decline of this country?

[Anonymous No.22804175]

>>22801194
Good. Amp deserves it

[Anonymous No.22804218]

>>22780731
the Deleuze reading group was a success although everyone's interpretations were wrong

[Anonymous No.22804352]

The fact that &amp can even continue doing &amp is a success. Shit is bleak in Canada at the moment, the cost of living has totally gone insane!

[Anonymous No.22804592]

>>22802009
Source?

[Anonymous No.22804612]

>>22780731
Where did people buy these?

[Anonymous No.22804708]

>>22804612
No one bought them LMAO

[Anonymous No.22804835]

join the diarrhea
https://discord.gg/J9XmJHQnzY

[Anonymous No.22804995]

>>22803323
Last post i saw from him he said he had a new book coming out early next year. I don't know anything beyond that.

[Anonymous No.22805307]

>>22804995
Good to hear!

[Anonymous No.22805659]

>>22804995
Hope Fremantle is in it

[Anonymous No.22805939]

>>22787168
I moved to Affinity Photo and Publisher because of both Adobe's jewery and how much bloatware Adobe background processes added to my machine. Affinity are one off purchases too and not so expensive.

[Anonymous No.22806583]

WHERE IS &AMP 19?????

[Anonymous No.22806660]

>>22806583
Coming, be patient

[Anonymous No.22806910]

>>22806660
ETA?

[Anonymous No.22806958]

>>22800006 This is part of why I support Horror’s Call so much. Gardner’s series is the closest this board has gotten to mainstream attention and our best bet at entirely breaking through. F Gardner’s books alone spawned all the other projects here. Before Frank came along there wasn’t such a thing as a /lit/ book or /lit/ book series. Gardner’s the hero we deserve and it took me a while to realize how much influence he had here. That single autist has shaped this whole place.

[Anonymous No.22807015]

>>22806958
literally kill yourself, Frank.

[Anonymous No.22807668]

>>22805659
It's going to be the centerpiece and there will discussions of the deeper Fremantle lore and backstory.

[Anonymous No.22807955]

>>22806958
Gardner is a legend for sure, the amount of coping and seething Gardnerposting causes is insane!

[Anonymous No.22808124]

>>22806910
When it's ready.

[Anonymous No.22808145]

>>22800080
>>22803335
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.22808169]

>>22808145
Keep the thread bumped my kys buddy

[Anonymous No.22808377]

I'm getting settled into my new place, what are you fags doing on a Friday night?

[Anonymous No.22808463]

>>22808377
Checked. I just got dumped so I’m drinking on the sea shore

[Anonymous No.22808467]

>>22807955
literally double kill yourself...twice.

[Anonymous No.22808471]

>>22808463
what's his name?

[Anonymous No.22808853]

>>22808463
What you drinking?

I have Colt 45 and a bucket of mixed nuts and smarties

Super stoked to finish book 3

Hope you can use this pain as fuel to keep pushing forward, namaste

[Anonymous No.22808985]

>>22808853
Thanks Jason. Was drinking vodka no chase. You can imagine my state of mind. Come to Nanaimo, we can smoke 25 cent cigarettes and sip on Colts

[Anonymous No.22809030]

>>22808985
Narrowly avoided homelessness, now in the perfect subterranean hovel, got stuff lined up so I should be able to fun a road trip this spring, hunkering down for the winter and will finish book 3... Good luck with all your shit, you are an inspiration to the rest of /lit/

[Anonymous No.22809048]

>>22808463
>>22808985
Good to hear that whatever chick you were with had the good sense to ditch you before you decided to start beating her to a bloody pulp.

[Anonymous No.22809050]

>>22809048
If you don't want to beat her you were never in love anyways

[Anonymous No.22809057]

>>22809030
>A sideways shot of a square room. There is a doorway to the left with a laptop sitting on the seat of a chair glowing in the dark. There is a 90 degree, white cinder block bare industrial corner in the middle of the shot. On the right, is a white door with a small zebra-print fly swatter hand tool hanging on the wall. Dark. Gritty. Gloomy. Writer.

[Anonymous No.22809067]

>>22809048
Why do you think she dumped me retard
>>22809057
Jason’s AI is much more robust than whatever pez dispenser you made that with

[Anonymous No.22810028]

>>22808985
Gay love story in motion

[Anonymous No.22810700]

&amp 019 when?

[Anonymous No.22810942]

>>22810700
Hold up for a minute

[Anonymous No.22811530]

&AMP 019 WHEN?

[Anonymous No.22811674]

>>22811530
Good things come to those who wait

[Anonymous No.22812212]

>>22811674
We've been waiting for four months man! Hurry up!

[Anonymous No.22812261]

>>22812212
Hartley's too busy smoking crack. Don't hold your breath.

[Anonymous No.22812339]

>>22812261
Fuck off Ari

[Anonymous No.22812353]

>>22812261
I’m fine.
>>22786308
Yeah. That’s why I wanted to start printing paperback anthologies, they’re so much cheaper to print.

[Anonymous No.22812357]

>>22812353
When is #19 coming out? We want &amp!

[Anonymous No.22812483]

>>22790316
You’re not him it’s not real it can’t be real you’re not him it’s not real it can’t be real????? You’re not him it’s not real you don’t know you’re not him you’re trying to trick me and make me crazy?(???? I can’t I can’t I can’t it’s not real it isn’t real

[Anonymous No.22813615]

Bump

[Anonymous No.22813825]

>>22812353
Are the anthologies still happening?

[Anonymous No.22814294]

Bump

[Anonymous No.22815258]

>>22813825
Doubtful.

[Anonymous No.22815313]

Bump for the legends

[Anonymous No.22815910]

>>22813825
Of course. As always things move more slowly than expected, but for the first anthology, Ive sort of shifted from just open submissions to more offering commissions to my fave /lit/ writers. I want it to be a who’s who of local namefags

[Anonymous No.22815914]

>>22815910
With a very strong emphasis on top shelf litfic and slick design.

[Anonymous No.22815934]

Bumps for the /lit/ homies

[Anonymous No.22815936]

tfw no commisson

[Anonymous No.22815946]

>>22815914
>slick design
Like the lazy Canva shit you came up with for Shards? lmao

[Anonymous No.22815960]

>>22815946
Exactly.
Also, finish my Best-Of, already.

[Anonymous No.22815975]

>>22815936
I haven’t offered commissions to everyone that I wanted just yet. I offered around five or six I think and only two writers have made the January 1st deadline so far. I will likely extend the deadline; I want it to be a real showpiece. At this rate, it may even take until next summer. We’ll see. I’ve sort of learned that literary deadlines are rather malleable in general and for good reason. I’ve also learned that releasing books before they are 1000% ready for print is gay and amateur and I’d like to grow beyond it.

[Anonymous No.22815991]

Here’s the linkspam for the Anthology project anyway, for cool dudes who care:
https://lampbylit.com/magazine/anthology-volume-one/
>https://lampbylit.com/magazine/anthology-volume-one/
https://lampbylit.com/magazine/anthology-volume-one/
>https://lampbylit.com/magazine/anthology-volume-one/

Also, Ari Boon, I restored the &amp Magazine Slush Pile Instant Online Publisher™ just for you:
https://lampbylit.com/magazine/submit/

[Anonymous No.22815996]

>>22815975
I heard on an interview once that most authors, even frequently published ones, can't meet deadlines set by editors. It's exceptional when they do. Construction is a similar way.

[Anonymous No.22816011]

>>22815996
I imagine there are exceptions in other areas of writing, maybe most other areas of writing, but for sure creative writing, especially tradpub development deals. The idea is funny to me, because we probably all imagine that if we could write full-time, we would smash all deadlines. I know I feel that way.

[Anonymous No.22816013]

>>22816011
I meant that deadlines in creative writing are bullshit, but probably less bullshit for like, copywriting

[Anonymous No.22816059]

How is this coming along?

[Anonymous No.22816072]

>>22815934
benis

[Anonymous No.22816111]

With the cost of living the way it is, the only people who are going to be making "art" are either the rich for vanity, the people paid by the government to make art, or the schizos who will live in squalor whether as artists or not.

Would be interesting to do a poll on /lit/ and see what people are paying for rent, and whether cost of living is impacting their ability to write.(or find time to read!)

[Anonymous No.22816129]

>>22816111
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.22816156]

>>22781300
>reactionary to not get the vax

holy shit /lit/ apparently cannot read.

[Anonymous No.22816164]

>>22788030
i would say where to go instead but you seem like such a pretentious limpwrist that you can wallow in this sad circlejerk of mental midgets.

[Anonymous No.22816675]

>>22816059
Would love to read this. Fascinating.

[Anonymous No.22816682]

>>22783048
Frater became Führer of his Gypsy Clan in NYC

[Anonymous No.22816898]

>>22816111
I don't rent, and the food prices don't affect me much because of my diet.
I'm in a good setting for writing, but I fail to read all the books I want to read.

[Anonymous No.22817796]

>>22816898
I was at the pub last night and met a teacher who just got a job out here near Kelowna. Moved from Ontario, early 30's, she's been a teacher for 10 years. She's paying 50% of her income just on rent and about 25% of the rest of her month on transportation and food. She had pre-drank a bottle of wine before going to the pub because each glass of gross house red wine was $12 bucks and a bottle of cheap red is also $12.

>>22816129
I'm going to add a page to my next book full of "kill yourself" as a homage to your inspiring work good friend. Still throat and pussy fucked Nadia and came in her holes.

[Anonymous No.22817804]

>>22816059
Who are Card and Zulu?

Does Waldun count if he doesn't even post here?

[Anonymous No.22818715]

>>22817804
Card is a grifter with a larger presence on /lgbt/ of all places. He wrote People Mover, possibly the worst /lit/ book. Zulu's actually a pretty stand up guy if not misguided and ambitious. He wrote the Savage Green. Waldun is /lit/ adjacent at the very least.

[Anonymous No.22818833]

>>22818715
Fascinating information. I fucking finally have a space to put a bookshelf and I intent to pickup a copy of all the /lit/ works. My book collection went from like 200+ books to I think like 2 books over the chaos since COVID, want to rebuild that fat stack I had before.

[Anonymous No.22818851]

>>22818715
When I used /lit/ the most was the time leading up to Waldun's book release, the "dark academia" one, and the amount of posts and utterly brutal insults and attempts to humiliate the guy, I feel like it made him go both feet in on the YouTube thing which, I imagine, makes a much bigger income than writing does. More power to him! He certainly has his brand looking polished on video.

That other anon who wrote about making some sort of /lit/ review guide, he gave me an idea, how about someone, like me, buy alllllll the /lit/ books and read them all cover to cover, then I'll write a book that is a novel where each of the main, or interesting sub-characters, from each of the /lit/ books meet or interact in a story in some way. Maybe they form into two teams or something and murder each other. Who knows? I'll have to read all the /lit/ books first. If I had to choose a first /lit/ book to read, the first thing that comes to mind is Call of the Crocodile, but I'd try to read them in chronological order on when they were released. Would the last /lit/ book be Chicken World at this point? I am out of the loop on the latest /lit/ author book release. I'm broke as fuck until Early January anyways haha.

I live in a place where the Wily Wolverine tallcan beers are 8% and only $2.75! Going to try and not end up passed out in a ditch

[Anonymous No.22818859]

>>22818715
>Card is a grifter
he also looks like Rocky Dennis

[Anonymous No.22818866]

>>22818851
>Chicken World
IT'S UP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reHZf2oJiFk

[Anonymous No.22818883]

>>22818866
Absolutely terrible video. Just abysmal editing and production quality, and no indication whatsoever of the book's plot.

[Anonymous No.22818914]

>>22818851
Come to Nanaimo, dork.
>>22818883
Thanks for watching.

[Anonymous No.22818946]

>>22818715
What have you read?

[Anonymous No.22819115]

>>22818946
I've only read Eggplant, the Tales of the Unreal Volumes, a few Gardner books. I do want to read the two books I just mentioned and I'm guessing Labuschagne's stuff is good too. Shitkicker's first chapter was a slog, I did attempt to read it at least.

[Anonymous No.22819161]

>>22819115
I read Sociopath. It wasn't my favorite of things I read from /lit/, but I think LA has a great writing style.

[Anonymous No.22819192]

>>22819161
the cover is fuckin rad

[Anonymous No.22819205]

>>22819161
He does. Colder than Ice was fantastic and it made me realize, 'Hey! I should just read this fuckers work' lol. Also everyone calls Miles a hack but he's alright, I should read him too.

[Anonymous No.22819359]

>>22819192
Based

[Anonymous No.22819366]

>>22819192
Dangerously based

[Anonymous No.22819488]

>>22812483
This shit is seriously still going on?

[Anonymous No.22819523]

>>22819488
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlGqN3AKOsA

[Anonymous No.22819618]

>>22819523
NOTHING IS OVER

[Anonymous No.22820503]

>>22817804
Waldunchads are the backbone of /lit/

[Anonymous No.22820855]

>>22820503
I have been corrected!

[Anonymous No.22821654]

&amp 019 when?

[Anonymous No.22821732]

>>22818883
which part was edited poorly? The video description has a book blurb, which explains what the book is about. You’re real lit only making third parties more curious about the book when you blindly tantrum like this

[Anonymous No.22821736]

post2015/lit/ sucks

[Anonymous No.22821747]

>>22821736
things may change. they've always done.

[Anonymous No.22821791]

>>22821736
What made it better?

[Anonymous No.22821853]

>>22809050
Cowards words.

[Anonymous No.22821882]

>>22818851
>That other anon who wrote about making some sort of /lit/ review guide, he gave me an idea, how about someone, like me, buy alllllll the /lit/ books and read them all cover to cover,
Multiple people have tried this. They always give up because these books are like 1% good (Mixtape Hyperborea, The Savage Green), 70% mediocre slogs (Eggplant, everything else by Zulu, Chicken World, Son of the Sun, Tales of the Unreal), and 29% "Affront to the Concept of Literature" bad. Dismally boring, written in a confusing way, and painfully repetitive. Pseudo Bulkington failed to capitalize the name of a character all throughout The Orators. Gardner's writing is on the level of a fifth grader trying to hit a word count for an essay. I can't even begin to guess the thought process behind the conception and drafting of People Mover, nobody thinks or acts like anyone in this book does. It's a tremendous and unrewarding waste of time.

[Anonymous No.22822301]

>>22815991
Why would Ari want to publish shit with &amp? kek

[Anonymous No.22822336]

>>22821882
Well then why not limit it to the "cream" of /lit/ books?
Just read and review the best and ignore the rest.

[Anonymous No.22822738]

>>22822301
He's saying that because Ari was using the website submission form to troll him before which is why it got disabled, lmao

[Anonymous No.22823173]

>>22822738
https://lampbylit.com/magazine/penis-nigger/

[Anonymous No.22823179]

19 when??

[Anonymous No.22824301]

new thread when?

[Anonymous No.22824531]

>>22821882
Could be a ton of fun, it isn't like I read right now anyways.

[Anonymous No.22824600]

Atlas & Ryan
UwU

[Anonymous No.22824605]

>>22780731
Wanna write a new one?

[Anonymous No.22824609]

>>22780803
>Only a fool would attach their real name to /lit/
Fucking poseur
Go suck suit wearing cock to ensure that purdy reputation you have stays clean and makes you lots of $$$ or bourgeoisie street cred
Fraud

[Anonymous No.22824615]

>>22784750
I'm the best writer on the board. I bet all your shit is mid. I have nothing published and you won't hear about me til I'm dead probably, because that's what happens with REAL writers

[Anonymous No.22824624]

>>22824600
Why would you post this,?????? Why would you post this?????? Just leave me alone????? Just leave me alone why would you do this?????

[Anonymous No.22824647]

>>22824600
What is wrong with you?????? Why would you do this?????? Just leave me alone okay why would you do this???????