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what are the most controversial issues in lit today?

>> No.486811

What would be an example of a controversial "lit issue."

I'm not sure what you're asking for.

>> No.486810

Vampires. Discuss.

>> No.486816

>>486810
Ugh fuck. I've always made sure I took my name off before coming to these boards.

>> No.486817

>>486810

Women bringing women back 200 years. I didn't know Meyer was Austen.

>> No.486819

Issues are about whether to write good books or to pander to idiots. The later is winning.

>> No.486822

post-modernism

>> No.486823

>>486817

At least Jane Austen tried out different styles. Meyer's just squeezing the angst rag until it goes dry.

>> No.486875

Post-modernism.

>> No.486912

being conservative

seriously, if you write a book about dudes fistfucking dudes, it's ok.
but if you write a book about how gays are worthless, you're a maniac.

same goes to everything that conservatives had always said about everything.
family
feminism
abortion
christianity
blacks

etc

>> No.486917

>>486819
Pandering to idiots has always had the far bigger market share. People who constantly nostalgia for halcyon that never existed make me fucking rage.

Shut the fuck up and write the next literary difficult masterpiece. Hope you've got a side job.

>> No.486921

>>486912
not very controversial that conservatives are assholes

>> No.486934

>>486921
see?
instant profit

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>>486823

>squeezing the angst rag until it goes dry

That put a big old smile on my face.

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>> No.486944

could you write a likeable terrorist and get away with it?

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>>486944
yes

>> No.486960

>>486944

Being controversial is some hard ass shit in these modern times. That's why having followers and viral marketing are vital to attracting anybody's attention.

>> No.486983

>>486960
Writing about terrorists is overflowing the shelves of Tom Clancy's descendants.

If you fags thing writing a novel that's 'OMG CONTROVERSIAL' will get you published or famous, you need to turn off TV news and read something other then Palahnuick.

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>>486983
>implying not watching a populist source of information and not reading Palahiunak, a popular, widely-read contemporary author, will in anyway help us get published by publishers, by their very definition populist disseminators of content.

>> No.486996

>>486934
The difference between a book about about 'dudes fistfucking dudes' and one that says gays are worthless, is that that one isn't inherently professing a group of people as worthless. The answer is in your own example. Still, I really don't care, and people shouldn't be like "omg, people have predjudicicies and write about them"

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I think the biggest controversy is whether there is some qualitative difference between "literature as high art" and popular writing.

I am surprised and happy that so many on /lit/ have already figured out the correct answer to this on their own.

>> No.487004

most controversal would just be writing for kmoney v. writing for fun

>> No.487006

>>486993
You're right.
I correct myself: Writing about 'LOL CONTROVERSY' will get you published, but nobody with a brain or any taste will want to read it, it it will find it's place in the dustbins and you will die unread and forgotten.

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>>487006
>implying that most authors give a fuck about being in the bargain bin once they're dead.
>implying that most authors aren't trying to make a fucking living like the rest of the world.
>implying that you or anyone else on /lit/ have a snowball's chance in hell of attaining immortality through your written work by sticking to your non-populist guns.

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>>486912
>seriously, if you write a book about dudes fistfucking dudes, it's ok.
but if you write a book about how gays are worthless, you're a maniac.

Heh. What? If you write a book about how an entire section of the population is worthless, you probably ARE a maniac. Pic related.

>> No.487034

rabid commercialisation
critical cronyism in award panels
publishing house "clan" mentality
celebrity endorsements/authorship
ghostwritten work
television tie-ins
info-dump 'Faction'

implicit topics (never addressed openly for fear of backlash):
lower readership
publish-for-profitability only
a less literate public.

>> No.487048

Religious freedom.

>> No.487112

>>487048
yeah, not really.

artistic authenticity, though it's pretty much been covered by >>487034

>> No.487122

>>487018
>>Implying that you believe any of that.

Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence. Read it. Maybe you'll learn something.

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Today's controversial issue is pillows

>> No.487156

well, my point about conservatives proved itself quite well

dumbasses

>> No.488279

bump

>> No.488284 [DELETED] 

>>486912
problem is not conservative, it's being fucking retarded.

>> No.488300

>>486912
sounds like you have a problem man. and it's not your being conservative.

>> No.488308

>>488284

no it isn't if you're liberal and retarded, you get the nobel prize for peace or literature.

>> No.488318

he edited