many black kids in my classes obsess over this guy
is he really that good a writer on the level of Joyce? or even better?
>>9190832
He ruined everything Malcolm X worked towards, so I suppose that took some talent.
>>9190832
>on the level of joyce
fuck no, nobody can touch the fartmaster
But Baldwin is good. I frankly don't give a damn about his political essays but his fiction is top-shelf stuff.
Every writer with exceptional prose is compared with Joyce.
Having read them both, he's not as good as Joyce, but he's definitely up there. He's a very emotionally evocative and talented writer, the best to come out of the Harlem Renaissance IMO.
Read Sonny's Blues if u want a taste, Giovanni's Room if u want his best.
>Its another Melvyn is rude to his guests episode.
>>9190725
The Bill O'Reilly of entry level philosophical "discussions".
I wish these programs went for longer. They barely have time to scratch the surface with basic details.
I guess that is the target audience; I think they should do 2 parts, the first being an introduction and a basic analysis, and then another episode adding a layer of depth.
The guest scholars are not being utilised to their potential.
>>9190725
When the show is good, its really good. But aaalways Melvyn exuding someone who just can't wait to get home.
Never read a book before, where do I start?
>>9190551
Start with Dostoievski, Hanamaru
Start with the egyptians
>>9190551
Start with the turks
>your favorite YA novels
Crime and Punishment
Piss and Posterity
Mein Kampf
Stop using computers.
>>9189870
Tomorrow.
>>9189870
No
>>9189870
But then I'd have no job.
How does socialism and communism solve the problem of every man wanting to own something?
What if a person wants a big juicy yacht? Means, either everybody would have a yacht, or nobody?
What does Marx say about it?
Also, should I read Chomsky on Anarchism, or is it pure shit not worth?
>>9189394
That would be selfish. Everyone is equal and has a right to live reproduce successfully and without struggle.
>>9189406
Your post answers nothing.
How do you reconcile with that fact that thousands of life's presures are completely outside your grasp?
As to yuor question, in communist utopia you could always get a ride on a publicly owned yacht, does it NEED to be in your private possession?
ITT ugliest words in english language
I'll start
>Earth
is the whole people make when they're retching. What a disgraceful way to describe our homeworld
I like Earth, but Terra is better
>>9188997
>2017
>earth
>not orb-garden of brilliant fecundity
sounds so much better desu
>>9188997
i-it means dirt, m-morty!
>shit writer
>shit opinions on better writers
Why do people take this hack seriously?
A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
>>9188705
>Nabokov
>shit writer
I'm already regreting starting to reply to this shit bait, but I already wrote more than half of the reply so I might just as well post it so other people can see how shit your thread/bait/opinion is and learn for future posts like this.
>>9188768
pretty much this, sage
My editor says she likes my ideas for angels,witches and vampires but my wolfs are a not 'disturbing' like the others.
?
>>9188619
Make them feminists.
Literally just copy and paste. It's not that hard.
Less is more
Avoid using the word "werewolf"
Be gruesome and sparse
I ONCE HAD A GIRL
OR SHOULD I SAY
SHE ONCE HAD ME
>>9187909
I'm going to meme this man into getting the nobel prize YOU'LL SEE
>>9187909
Is this book old enough to read yet based on that guy's roommate's criteria?
>>9187909
WHEN
SHE SAID DON'T WASTE
YOUR WORDS THEY'RE JUST LIES
I CRIED SHE WAS DEAF
Is there any good poetry about >tfw no gf?
Petrarca (Petrarch for anglos) was probably the most widely known and influential poet until Baudelaire came around. I've read a couple of his sonnets and I could barely hold myself back from crying like a little bitch while doing it.
>>9188098
I'm reading/studying the Canzoniere right now and it's crazy good. The guy basically invented all the tropes and metaphors about love.
But please suggest English poets too. Some people believe it makes no sense to read poetry in translation.
my
What the fuck was his problem?
>>9187383
he wanted to be nabokov but could only write genre fiction
>>9187393
Don't insult Wolfe by comparing him to that slavic bourgeois monkey
>>9187393
>he wanted to be nabokov
Nabokov? In what way Nabokov?
Of course one shouldn't expect shitposts to have any basis but this is really hitting the spot between nonsense and, I don't know, plausible nonsense
Where does /lit/ read? I'm looking for a new place to read that isn't my bed or my fuck awful computer chair
>>9187359
I have a garder with a guava tree. I put a relaxing chair there and I read.
>>9187361
yard*
The balcony, when the weather is nice. Extremely comfy to watch the clouds sail by, birds flying around, meditating about what you are reading.
Do you have any?
Would be interesting to know your taste.
>>9187261
Excalibur
The Truman show
Red Beard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IT2aKGzgrg
In your best prose, write something profound.
>>9185859
Aww what a cutie girl :D
Now take my prenbus, BIOTCH!!!
>>9185859
The cock lifts.
An ascension?
stiff, blood engorged peckers