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Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:04:34 2015 No.6967931 [Reply] [Original]

Post some middlebrow authors

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:05:25 2015 No.6967933 >>6967931 gladwell is more like pop science so

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:05:43 2015 No.6967934 Franzen.jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:05:51 2015 No.6967935 >>6967931 Dfw and delillo

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:06:40 2015 No.6967937 >>6967931 David & Goliath was an enjoyable read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:07:27 2015 No.6967941 >>6967933 how is that not middlebrow?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:09:21 2015 No.6967949 >>6967935 DeLillo is so middlebrow lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:11:16 2015 No.6967955 >>6967949 He writes some very impressive prose thoguh

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:12:04 2015 No.6967957 >>6967955 I'd put him in uppermiddlebrow tbh

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:13:07 2015 No.6967959 File: 191 KB, 477x768, pepenazi.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is The Economist middlebrow?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:13:39 2015 No.6967961 >>6967959 I'd say high-middlebrow

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:13:56 2015 No.6967964 >>6967959 Its in the new yorker tier

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:15:37 2015 No.6967969 File: 86 KB, 500x629, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6967959 It's news... So... No...

Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:16:22 2015 No.6967971

why do people title their works in the style of phrase, colon, long sentence explaining what you're going to get out of the book

>The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
>Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
>David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

I pretty much don't read any books titled like this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:17:29 2015 No.6967974 >>6967971 It's been done for centuries and plenty of classics do it as well

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:18:27 2015 No.6967977 >>6967971 but anon, they feature startling conclusions that fly in the face of intuition backed up by empirical data and novel experiments!

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:18:45 2015 No.6967978 >>6967971 It's good for marketing and search engines http://mitrailleuse.net/2015/01/11/the-rise-of-the-mega-title-how-gratuitous-list-filled-names-optimized-books-for-internet-age-sales-conquered-the-market-and-made-titles-more-boring/

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:19:45 2015 No.6967981 >>6967971 man these titles reek of middlebrow

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:24:37 2015 No.6968000 File: 19 KB, 364x337, fancy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6967981 absolutely and utterly revolting!

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:25:34 2015 No.6968004 >>6968000 I agree, my fellow redditor! Not for us highbrow Andy Weir fans!

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:26:11 2015 No.6968005 File: 185 KB, 1348x840, png.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This pic might give y'all some ideas.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:27:47 2015 No.6968014 File: 162 KB, 640x486, Murakami.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:30:27 2015 No.6968019 File: 4 KB, 106x132, box.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6968005 >implying jukebox isn't top-tier

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:32:24 2015 No.6968020 >>6968005 Im upper middle brow tbh Virginia Woolf would eat my soul

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:33:09 2015 No.6968025 File: 3 KB, 89x102, chr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6968005 >implying mail order overstuffed chair isn't top-tier

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:33:41 2015 No.6968026 >>6968025 Always buy that one in The Sims

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:35:04 2015 No.6968030 Franzen Chabon Sedaris Foer Eugenides Eggers Bryson Basically any author that turns up in a lot of "best books" lists.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:36:45 2015 No.6968038 >>6968030 Ah, guess that makes Shakespeare middlebrow

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:38:07 2015 No.6968044 >>6968005 Holy shit, I'm as middlebrow as it can get

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:38:16 2015 No.6968045 >>6968030 Perfect but add Zadie

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:39:12 2015 No.6968048 >>6968030 I know Foer at least should be lowbrow.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:39:15 2015 No.6968049 Anyone writing now who is black.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 17:45:17 2015 No.6968072 File: 52 KB, 560x342, mana.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6968005

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 18:11:11 2015 No.6968186 >>6968005 Autism meets Spooks: the image

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 18:20:19 2015 No.6968221 Pynchon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 18:27:43 2015 No.6968247 Philip Roth

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 19:19:03 2015 No.6968450 Joyce

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 19:26:57 2015 No.6968478 >>6967974 Classics use semicolons, m8 >Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 19:33:30 2015 No.6968505 >>6968005 What bothers me about the high-brow lit is that Naked Lunch and the cut-up trilogy are avant-garde novels, but are far too crude for the stereotypical high-brow snob >>6968014 More like lower-middle-brow masquerading as upper-middle-brow

Anonymous Wed Aug 12 19:35:15 2015 No.6968513

>>6968048
Foer wrote a nonfic book about how everyone should be vegan otherwise they are disgusting human beings. That's pretty middlebrow, as it appeals directly to the sort of hipster found in less-than-respectable schools - that type of hipster that pretends to be a real boho

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 19:46:53 2015 No.6968555 >>6967931 nothing middlebrow bout corporate shills

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 19:53:10 2015 No.6968577 >>6968005 >Upper Middle-Brow Games Fuck those people, lost again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 19:54:27 2015 No.6968581 >>6967964 the new yorker is far, far better than the economist, and i say that as a traditionalist conservative

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 20:01:02 2015 No.6968602 >>6968513 I was thinking about quality rather than content. Franzen might be middlebrow, but he still blows that hack Foer out of the water in comparison.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 20:02:06 2015 No.6968607 >>6968038 Shakespeare is middlebrow, but not specifically middlebrow like those authors are.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 20:09:18 2015 No.6968638 Houellebecq

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 20:53:37 2015 No.6968813 >>6968049 Ta-Nehisi Coates is like the God for middlebrow white progs

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 20:57:04 2015 No.6968828 >>6968581 The two magazines aren't much alike though, so I don't know what there is to compare in terms of content or writing style.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 20:58:23 2015 No.6968835 >>6968581 Economist's obits are on point though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 21:09:12 2015 No.6968915 File: 202 KB, 1381x874, Be happy – with Albert Camus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 21:33:10 2015 No.6969008 File: 263 KB, 685x887, The-Volts-Hemingway-Sweater.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You know it's true.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 22:39:06 2015 No.6969276 >>6968581 >comparing shit and vomit

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 22:42:36 2015 No.6969291 >>6968581 The Economist is basically "neoliberal agenda: the magazine".

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 22:50:43 2015 No.6969309 >>6968005 how old is this? there are actually a lot of really good westerns now

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 00:52:10 2015 No.6969812 >>6967961 There's no such thing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 00:54:31 2015 No.6969826 God Tier: NYRM Almost there tier: Harpers, N+1, Baffler, Dissent, At least I can appear cultured on the subway tier: New Yorker Shit tier: Jacobin

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 00:57:46 2015 No.6969842 >>6969812 50,000 dollars a year != 200,000 dollars a year

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 00:58:08 2015 No.6969845 >>6969291 That's because every educated adult in the real world is a neoliberal of some sort. Grow up bruh

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 01:00:01 2015 No.6969852 >>6969842 200,000 gorrillian dollars can't buy you critical thought, introspection and, above all, taste.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 01:02:23 2015 No.6969857 File: 16 KB, 300x389, PhilipDick.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 01:31:58 2015 No.6969991 >>6968555 Wot are you talking about, corporations live off middle brows

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 01:33:38 2015 No.6969996 >>6969008 If anything he's one of the seemingly lowbrow authors (and appeals to low and middlebrow people) but who's actually highbrow

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 01:38:56 2015 No.6970012 What are some good magazines /lit/

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 01:42:01 2015 No.6970021 who are some highbrow authors?

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:01:12 2015 No.6970066 >>6970012 Paris Review is the only one I bother looking at.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:06:06 2015 No.6970080 >>6970021 Extremely obscure postmodern authors like Gil Orlovitz

Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:30:05 2015 No.6970131

>>6968005

why is non fiction in the second slot? it can often be taken entirely at face value and therefore is a bastion for pseudo-intellectuals who think the acquisition of pure knowledge is a substitute for critical thinking

also all the slots that mention material goods shouldn't be there because someone truly high brow, not a dandy faggot, doesn't care about material things

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:35:59 2015 No.6970138 File: 2 KB, 91x67, let.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6968005 >implying quartered iceberg lettuce isn't top-tier

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:39:28 2015 No.6970147 >>6970131 Well, they still need some kind of Furniture and Useful Objects.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 02:56:17 2015 No.6970202 >>6969996 this

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 03:39:55 2015 No.6970330 >>6968072 spooks.txt

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