ITT: Literary Outsider Art
What are some good examples of literary Outsider Art?
I'm talking books / stories written by people not otherwise involved in literature, particularly those who are not otherwise connected to the world of art in any form.
Examples:
Elliot Rodger - My Twisted World
Fritz Zorn - Mars
Anon - My Diary Desu
Henry Darger - The Story of the Vivian Girls
James Hampton - The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly
Any more?
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Where do we download from now on?
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>>9799860
Blocked in the UK
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https://proxyof.com/libgen-proxy-unblock-access/
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>someone recommends a book
>it was written after 1990
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>>9799823
Pray tell the title of the recommended book
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american tabloid & cold 6K are wickedly good
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>someone recommends a (popular)scientific book
>it was written before 1980
In that case it would be better to recommend textbooks
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What are the most high brow literary magazines, blogs or publications? 2017-07-24 02:31:13 Post No.9799729
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What are the most high brow literary magazines, blogs or publications?
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I don't know of many outside of the Paris Review and The New Yorker (my go to right now).
What are some other sites that publish literary criticism and medium-to-long essays?
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>>9799787
Arts & Letters Daily collects literary articles from all sorts of different sites. Of course because of the format, quality varies, but it's rarely horrible.
Paris Review are all assholes for now hiding their interviews behind paywalls.
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TLS
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this. Does anyone have archives of the interviews that they can please dump?
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>"Anon, sweetie, I'd like you to come downstairs and meet your new step-father. Meet Thomas!"
What do you in this situation /lit/?Thomas Ligotti general
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at least I'm guaranteed not to have a step-brother
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>Hatred of abomination and love of the good are one and the same. You made it.
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>>9799632
Ligotti is unironically my hero and my favorite writer.
And i'm sure he'd scoff at such a notion.
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Who /iconoclast/ here? 2017-07-24 01:41:55 Post No.9799576
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What are some books for this? Preferably something contemporary
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The Quran?
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I haven't read the Quran, so I can't say if it is indeed iconoclast. But you must be refering to the attitude of extremist muslims towards their former past, from the Taliban destroying Buddhist statues to ISIS destroying Roman ruins.
I guess that most revolutionary movements are iconoclastic, from Nazis burning books to the Maoist cultural revolution. It is pretty repulsive actually, but I can see why these sort of things happen and am hoping something creative runs out of this thread.
Has anyone read any of John Fante's books that feature the character Arturo Bandini? If so, do you think everyone on lit is basically Arturo Bandini?
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It's yet another "Help me to write" thread 2017-07-24 01:03:07 Post No.9799474
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It's yet another "Help me to write" thread
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I've had this idea to write a book. I've revisited and reworked it for months until I finally had a concrete idea in my mind. I have the plot and ideas outline written down and I know what I have to write.
I. JUST. CAN'T. GET. DOWN. TO. WRITING. IT.
I know how stupid this is. I've read this thread here a lot of times and I've always felt sad in a pathetic way for the people asking for advice on how to just sit down and write, yet here I am. I've written down the first draft of one chapter of the novel but that fire in me and motivation faded away very quickly after that. I've yet to edit it and fix some troubles I had with it.
Anyone here has written something elngthy or writes on a daily basis, anyone here has stayed in his room for days just writing with no distraction? I would appreaciate any tips, help or stories. Some insults are welcomed too I guess, I know where I am after all.
TL;DR: Tips on how to stay focused and write consistently
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Unironically >>>/adv/
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Hire a fucking scribe if you're that shit at summoning even a modicum of your own motivation.
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>>9799476
Is still /lit/ related and I feel more secure with advices of people who, more or less and for better or worse, read and write.
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Post images here and other anons recommend a book for you. For example for pic related I'd probably say the good soldier svejk by Jaroslav Hasek.
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I'm tempted to say cloud atlas but that's like recommending an all you can eat buffet to a guy who just wants some french fries.
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Anyone read this? Opinions? 2017-07-24 09:47:49 Post No.9799013
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Anyone read this? Opinions?
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No i have never stolen anything in my life :)
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>>9799013
No because some fuck keeps stealing it from me
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>>9799709
Slight chuckle from me.
Post your favorite quotes and aphorisms.
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"bugs... easy on the carrots" by anon
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What are the best e-reader models to purchase on a budget (>$100 CAD)? Thanks /lit/!
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>>9798823
Get a used kindle paperwhite.
I'm not sure if it will be less than $100 bucks. But you should definitely get one. I love mine.
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>>9798897
this.
got mine on prime day for 70€. I love it.
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>>9798823
You mean <100
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Greetings /lit/
I am going to be doing a 6000 word historical research project this semester and have chosen to focus on Rasputin and the Russian Revolution.
What are some quality works that I could use? Especially ones on Rasputin
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only six thousand words? wow, you're going to have to cut out a lot of stuff. maybe you can sell it to the Reader's Digest. or put it up on wikipedia.
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A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes is probably the best book on the Revolution itself, if not on Rasputin specifically.
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>history
kys
I'm seriously considering doing it myself. I'm essentially being forced to take a history course on the rise of communism in Russia. Fucking liberal arts and their love of STEM dick.
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Thoughts on the plays of Sarah Kane? 2017-07-24 07:27:47 Post No.9798724
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Thoughts on the plays of Sarah Kane?
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Recently picked up pic related and I just finished 4.48 Psychosis and it was one of the most soul-wrenching things I've ever read. What are your thoughts on Kane's work?
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I read 4.48 Psychosis hoping I would experience what you described but it was tumblr tier-bad and left me completely unfazed.
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One of my favourite writers, being honest. She was obviously fucked up and that translated pretty well to her work. I don't think there's anybody in the history of literature who has managed to write about the experience of being completely at the bottom of life, unloved and undeserving of love like her. Pure blackness.
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4.48 psychosis is incredible, one of my favourites for sure
she got it mane
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>Above the state and behind the fa9ades of >ostensible power, in a maze of
>multiplied offices, underlying all shifts of >authority and in a chaos of inefficiency,
>lies the power nucleus of the country, the >superefficient and supercompetent
>services of the secret police.
>The only rule of which everybody in a >totalitarian state may be sure is
>that the more visible government agencies >are, the less power they carry,
>and the less is known of the existence of an >institution, the more powerful
>it will ultimately tum out to be.
>Hannah Arendt, from the origin of totalitarianism
wat d u thin'?
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anne frank sure got ugly
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>>9798642
First time using greentext, huh?
Anyway, yeah, Arendt's right. Libs love her but are too stupid to realize that she's describing exactly what they do.
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>>9798642
wait till you touch Life of the Mind ......