/lit/ - Literature

>>1828212

>Last read:
Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman - Gender Outlaws: the Next Generation
Leslie Feinberg - Stone Butch Blues
Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture

>Currently reading:
Mike Birbiglia - Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories
Tao Lin - you are a little bit happier than i am

>8-10 page paper due
>Write 6 pages
>Get stuck for a while
>Write a few more pages later without using any shortcuts
>Do this all within the span of one night
>My face

Anything by Kate Bornstein
Anything by Willa Cather (specifically, a short story called Paul's Case)

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

>>1788643

From Amazon's product description:

>Kate bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for navigating an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to teenage suicide prevention for marginalized youth who want to stay on the edge, but alive.

>Hello, Cruel World features a catalog of 101 Alternatives to Suicide that range from the playful (Moisturize), to the irreverent (Disbelieve the Binary), to the highly controversial (Get Laid. Please). Designed to encourage readers to give themselves permission to unleash their hearts’ harmless desires, the book has only one directive: "Don’t be mean." It is this guiding principle that brings its reader on a self-validating journey, which forges wholly new paths toward a resounding decision to choose life.

>Tenderly intimate and unapologetically edgy, Kate is the radical role model, the affectionate best friend, and the guiding mentor all in one kind and spirited package.

I picked it up at one of at one of her readings because I liked her Gender Outlaws book. Got 'em both signed.

>LAST TEN BOOKS READ:
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
Adam Carolla - In Fifty Years, We'll All Be Chicks
Patton Oswalt - Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Jessica Valenti - Full-Frontal Feminism
Sapphire - Push
Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman - Gender Outlaws: the Next Generation
Leslie Feinberg - Stone Butch Blues
Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture

>CURRENTLY READING:
Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories - Mike Birbiglia

>NEXT TO READ:
Tao Lin - you are a little bit happier than i am
Tao Lin - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Probably some other Tao Lin stuff, if I feel like it
Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories - Mike Birbiglia (finishing it up)
Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws by Kate Bornstein

>>1783816

Stuff like that, yeah.

Besides, if I were really Tao Lin, I'd be typing like a heroin addict and not using capital letters or proper punctuation.

>>1783774

Ah, I almost forgot about Ayn Rand.

See, I've been sort of getting into Tao Lin, but every time I see a Tao Lin thread, it's usually some sort of massive shitstorm of trolling and other shenanigans.

Is Tao Lin to /lit/ what Neutral Milk Hotel or Radiohead are to /mu/, in that the discussion or mere mention of each subject invariably leads to massive trolling?

>>1781710

Up until now, I never knew Tao Lin was a regular/semi-regular on 4chan.

Also, I didn't realize that there was a Tao Lin thread already in progress.

>>1780483

I'm sort of getting into this writer/poet, Tao Lin. He seems kind of eccentric, writes bizarre/interesting stuff. Does /lit/ like Tao Lin's stuff?

Pic related, the book I'm thinking about ordering/buying.

>>1775992

I'm really liking Tao Lin's stuff there. Have you read either one of them? Do you know if the poem you posted is in either one?

Bumping for more ideas

>>1775871

I guess I meant to say "burn them." Also, I'd probably get somebody else to spread the ashes for me.

>>1775794

I finished taking out the trash, and I vigorously washed my hands afterwards (as one always should when handling garbage). I was kind of pissed off that it happened, but it's not that big a deal.

>>1775789

I know. Even though I write poetry, I'm still kind of shocked.

>>1775798

Who was that written by? And was it written/published anytime from 2006 to 2011? If so, then it fits.

So I posted a thread here a few days ago about finding a good poetry book to review for a class I'm taking. You guys offered good suggestions, but I misread the requirements for the assignment. As it turns out, the assignment is to review a CONTEMPORARY poetry book, meaning it must have been written/published within the last five years.

Have there been any good poetry books written/published within the last five years? If so, please suggest some ideas to me.

Pic related, the book I WAS going to review (because Shel's just fucking great).

>At work
>Cleaning out the trash can in the women's restroom
>It's one of those small trash cans attached to the wall
>Have to manually pull out the trash and put it into the bag (I didn't know it detached from the wall)
>Pull out something by a string
>It's a fucking used tampon
>Instantly feel the severe urge to chop off my hands, bury them, and scatter the ashes to the four winds
>My face