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>Religion strawman: the book.

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Please suggest some good books on marketing, running a company and developing it, also a book about stocks (or stock market if you prefer) and really anything that seems relevant to business.

Thank you.

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What is /lit/ reading at the moment?

Pic related. I'm about halfway through but it's pretty tough reading.

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Tao Lin (b. 1983, Virginia) grew up in Orlando, FL and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Tao's parents were born in Taiwan. Tao has a B.A. in Journalism from New York University.

Tao is the author of a story-collection, BED, and a novel, EEEEE EEE EEEE, published simultaneously by Melville House on May 15, 2007 in the first two-book story-collection/novel debut since Ann Beattie in 1976. Tao is the author of a poetry collection, YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM, which is regularly a bestseller (#4, #2, #4, #2) and two e-books, of poetry and stories, on bear parade.

Tao's second poetry-collection, COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, was published May 15, 2008 by Melville House, who will also publish his second novel in 2009 or 2010.

Tao is a poetry editor for 3:AM Magazine. Tao's writing has appeared in the following venues: Noon, Nerve, Esquire, Vice, The Stranger, Mississippi Review, Cincinnati Review, Bear Parade, Adbusters, etc.

Tao has art here. He was pardoned by Gawker. His first solo art showing was reviewed unfavorably by Gothamist commenters.
SELECTED PRESS
Feature, De Zeit (Germany) (June, 2008)
Feature, Paste Magazine (May, 2008)
Feature, Time Out New York
Feature, South China Morning Post

Review, COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY in The Constant Critic
Review, EEEEE EEE EEEE & BED in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
Review, EEEEE EEE EEEE & BED in Bookmunch
Review, EEEEE EEE EEEE in Bookslut
Review, BED in The Stranger

Interview, BBC Radio 2, "The Chris Evans Show" (August, 2008)
Interview, 3AM: Magazine (May, 2008)
Interview, Psychopedia (May, 2008)
Interview, ANP Quarterly Issue 10
Interview, Bookslut
Interview, Popmatters
Interview, Litpark
SELECTED LITERATURE
Poems, "Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy" (first seven pages)
Poems, "A Stoic Philosophy..." "The Power of Ethical Reasoning"

Poem, "I'm Going To Touch You Very Hard"
Poem, "A Poem Written By A Bear"
Poem, "Some Of My Happiest Moments In Life Occur On AOL Instant Messenger"
Poem, "I Went Fishing With My Family When I Was Five"
Poem, "Opposite Of Song Of Myself"

Story, "The Gay Stepdad"
Story, "The Existentially Fucked Megamouth Shark"
Story, "We Will Drink our Coffee and Complete our Novels..."
Story, "Love is a Thing on Sale For More Money Than There Exists"
Story, "Leftover Crack in Red Hook"
Story, "Sex After Not Seeing Each Other For A Few Days"
Story, "Shoplifting from American Apparel"
Story, "Exactly What I Want"
Story, "Should"

Essay, What I Can Tell You About Seattle Based on the People I've Met Who Are From There
Essay, Levels of Greatness a Fiction Writer can Achieve in America
Essay, Fighting Elliott Bay Audience
Essay, Bed (Largeheartedboy's Booknotes)
Essay, Cho Seung-Hui
Essay, Novel Writing

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Who is the most outstanding poet of the last 10 years?

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Scenario, you wake up in a random new world with a class of abilities. Shooting for 100 based on resources Mana, Chakra, Soul, Instinct, and Virtue with 20 in each. Less importantly they will also have a 1 in 3 choice later with progression ex: pyromancer=fire later chooses pheonix (defense) nova (attack) or promethean (utility) etc. I have 49ish so far, but I need some outside input to reach desired 100.

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If /lit rejects religion then what rules do you live your life by?
What rules are you following to determine where you end up in life and how you act?

How do you not just be some ping pong ball bouncing around in life just ending up where you end up?

it seems just following advice like be nice to people, work hard, save money isnt going to really propel you much further than wageslave.

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Hi /lit/ this morning I finished reading The Man with the Golden Gun and with that I have finished reading all of Ian Flemmings James Bond novels
What should be my next author or series to complete?

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itt: paintings = authors

pic related: kafka

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I pondered upon my inevitable death and I felt existential dread, but then I remembered, EVERYONE is going to die. Hahahaha, faggots. You're all going to die! I'm going to go play video games now.

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Who else here /completelyalone/? Any books to help me temporarily delude myself into thinking that this loneliness is somehow a profound way of confronting my soul or other poetic shit like that? Already read Rilke, Nietzsche and Pessoa. Also, looking for book recs, so don't you dare start giving me normie advice

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Are there any good books that are written with only lower case letters? No punctuation or anything.

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I was thinking the other day that babies don't die a lot in fiction, or at least it's never described.

Can you think of anything that depicts a baby dying?

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What book do I read that will teach me how to do what this guy does, survival stuff, etc.