you should probably go leave some love on Joseph Mcelroy's instagram page. before, well... you know.... he only has 88 friends :(. the water book is in pic related. look at those sexy boxes.
>>9174365
You're just trying to find our instagram names, OP.
>>9174386
I honestly never thought of that. mine is saywaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat if you are wondering
It's hard to believe it's actually him but at the same time there's not much reason to doubt it either.
What other cool authors can I find there?
Delillo, Auster, the ghost of DFW, etc.
As far as I know, there's only one A-list mainstream writer, Michel Houellebecq, that writes about sex honestly, and he's French. That doesn't mean that there aren't other literary figures writing today who do it just as well. Only that in America, they must remain anonymous.
While countercultural voices have always faced some level of rejection and censorship by the mainstream, I would argue that it's never been worse than it is today. This is because the HR department is blue pill. If you have even the slightest whiff of redpillishness (or alt rightness or blackpillishness, etc etc), and you're trying to make a living in a creative field, you won't even be interviewed. You won't get the chance to prove in person that you're not literally Hitler. Hirers don't need to actually meet you. All they need is one offensive comment found online. Not even comment, word. And they don't need to understand the point you're making, e.g. if you're actually ironically critiquing something. Their job is to find a reason, any reason, to remove your resume from their overflowing slush piles.
I became fascinated with a writer named Delicious Tacos after discovering his blog. Some of you have probably heard of him and read him. I'm a dedicated reader of literature and am a professional writer myself. I was utterly blown away by Delicious Tacos. I had finally found it, an American who wrote the truth, but who wasn't some dumbass liar like Tucker Max or a total amateur like Jordan Belfort. Tacos is as talented as any literati, historical or contemporary, and, to my shock, he was writing real shit. A similar analog is Nic Kelman's Girls, but Kelman never published anything even remotely like Girls again. Tacos was writing absolute A Premium shit about everything you can't say. But all anonymously.
His anonymity was somewhat tragic to me. Literary agents and publishers have their heads stuck so far up their asses that I doubted they would open their minds to someone like Tacos, and I knew they'd be even less likely to pay attention if he remained anonymous and had never been able to credit any published writing to his name. "Hi Penguin Books, I'm a blogger named Delicious Tacos..." would be the beginning and the end of any communique with establishment publishers.
If you wanna read some Tacos, I would just go to his blog and start with the most popular posts. His book, The Pussy, is fantastic, one of the few that've given me chills as I read the last lines. My favorite post of all time of his is actually not really about sex, but is rather a warped, magically realist and imho absolutely perfect allegory for life as an average American male.
He wrote a book about Lovecraft too because Lovecraft was a redpiller (or rather blackpilled)
His publishing company tried market as a general essay about life because they seemed to be embarassed that H wrote about Lovecraft
>>9174150
>Hollebeek
>french
He's Dutch m8
>>9174150
>there's only one A-list mainstream writer, Michel Houellebecq, that writes about sex honestly, and he's French. That doesn't mean that there aren't other literary figures writing today who do it just as well.
Houellebecq steals his ideas from a bunch of french writers/youtubers. He's not really ahead of the game.
Will this be, dare I say it, the literary event of the 21st century?
>>9174111
Were against blacks here, cuck
>>>/r/books
>>9174123
Shush little baby, don't you cry
>>9174111
Unless it's titled "Just Another Neocon: Not A Racist Edition" I don't think so
A story about the Flemish fighting of the French
Very highstanding literature( Originally in Dutch)
>>9174102
In English you get some of that in a fellow the name o' Scott-- Sir Walter Scott.
>>9174102
Heil Adolf is het enige wat ik me ervan herinner.
hadewijch shouldst be known mandatory.
What's some nice stuff that got published in the last decade or so? I mean the kind of books that SHOULD be on the best of year lists, but never make it on there because people are too busy putting lesbian historical fiction and Stephen King novels.
Fiction, nonfiction - it doesn't matter.
Leon Ostrov
stop objectifying women
>>9174023
>>>/tumblr/
ITT: Authors no one outside of America likes.
>>9173887
the author of your diary
itt: authors no one ouside of an asylum likes
Hemingway is well liked everywhere. Fuck off, pseud.
Is the life of Odysseus's dog, Argos, the saddest story in the history of literature?
>Waits 20 years for his master to come back
>So old and mistreated that he can't even lift his head
>Finally sees his master again after all that time
>Master doesn't even come over to give him a pet
>Dies on a pile of shit.
I usually read analytically so this stuff doesn't affect me, but goddamn it this really got to me.
Anyone else get bummed out by this? Got any other literary moments that tugged at the ol' heartstrings?
>anyone else got bummed out by this?
probably not, since discipline doesn't generate electricity
>>9173654
Cool. Thanks for that insight
The horse dream in C&P made me cry
What happens if you pop and chew up 10 viagra at the same time? I'm asking for a friend and I figure since you guys are all very well read you could give me a plausible answer. I'm only familiar with huffing Jankem & smoking weed. I'm asking you also cause I have can't read too much
Don't do it Reuben, you would probably have a stroke or heart attack.
My former boss's friend took a bunch of viagra for fun, he had an erection for hours.
He also took a birth control pill and became very sick.
>>9173568
What if he mixed in a few shots of Everclear with it? He's done every drug you could imagine and is somehow still alive and surprisingly well off. He makes 200k a year & has software development job in Silicon Valley programming for Apple and somehow passed every drug test despite his constant use.
Which book has had the most profound influence on your life? The one you derived the most meaning from.
Fart Bums by James Joyce
>>9173339
Sniff Sniff
>>9173342
*prrt*
I'm in need of criticism, I think it's time we have an OC poetry critique thread.
Haven't written any poetry? Type up a quick one
Cut your shit, Mr Fitt
Is your life in a barrel?
So full is your witt, yet your heart is so feral
let see your own chain past the mask you call eyes?
The dead rope that is bane hidden veil behind flies
Flutter fast and move past
As so not to be wasteful
The prior of thought,
Always gross and yet tasteful
Im inflamed that your tidings give offer this late?
I can't help but to let my heart focus it's hate
Yet more potent than wrath am I stricken with interest
Where finds what the founders recounted that this is?
A lure for the demons who cast false intention
Or sense made to those in the nation's resistance
Unlucky who cross too far near to its gate
To get eaten alive by its gears and it's pistons
The student shall know
To his yay, for his woe
How the good causes curse
Without limit to go
And the bad, and the bad?
Grips of eyes cry beware
Whilst the whimpers give loose
And the cat points it's hair
That no “bad” may be seen
No more lest be it “good”
Fair of not for the sinners
Grief denied which once stood
If your words, seed of death
Never come understood
Don't let squander your breath
Crash against the dogwood
Mr Fitt! Mr Fitt!
I forgive you your sins!
Just come back, my heart begs
What I lacked was a lense
Now I see! Now I see!
Sight of all that could be
How misused was my life
Oh how clear is the key
Now I beg only this
That you'll open the door
This is nothing to miss
Though I know it's a chore
I am ready to walk
Nevermind what was spoke
Take your hand, grip the knife
I won't scream if you poke
I'm gay, by me
I'm gay
Chop my knob off like it's salami
Homo faggot cum cum willy
Stuff my bum up so your cock's not chilly
Poofy woofy sex with a dog
Canada allows for this; let's all fuck dogs
Now I'm gay and also a furry
The power I hold and the power you seek
Is a sneak to the power which cowards retreat
More complete than all other, oh sisters and brothers!
So whole in the way that it feeds one another
The power not seen,
Power spread and may shower
Hands reach for the sky cast to feel this great hour
The here and the now is how hope of our kind
Had its most fruitful taste, and so had its worst crime
By this way had the power first made itself known,
Then provoking in visions the dream of a throne
Unannoyed from astride heavens innermost ring
Waiting patient there still to be claimed by a king
For does fate so cause the winds to blow?
The love to bring?
The knowers to know?
All the things shared between every ebb, every flow?
Flocks resolve all the angels who've fallen below?
Here so lies the tongue alongside its golden beak
To herald forth eternal prayer
A prayer that only God can speak
The never sinking waves of glory, rising higher past the peak,
Where full mystique let keep ungiven,
Hair resolve to hold its ribbon,
Souls which had the Lord forgiven,
Deft to its impacting beat
You still don't know?
It's tough to say
What need be spoke
I ask and pray
How stretch us ever even close
The sacred power God is host
The blind alike with those who see
Embroidered names on clear cast skies
Of all the gifts twer found to be
By every guest, their searching eyes
And how infamous stood,
Breaking stars like a tower
That even high heaven bare shade to it's power
What says is unknown because know is it's name
And it's game is unlearned, hardly known as a game
Yield not forth ever gold, neither silver, nor fame
The desired effect is alone why we came
Cont...
ITT everyone posts one of their favorite short stories.
Starting with a classic
>The Veldt
>The Marvelous Brass Chess Playing Automaton
>The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
>>9173937
Nice
4chan is a hell-pit. Why would you let discussions about literature, wondrous literature, occur here of all places?
Is this post perhaps the first recordable example of post-post-irony?
>>9172948
because only demons voice the truths that god fears
>>9172963
It's called insincerity.
Really makes you think...
>>9172928
go back to twitter
switch nietzche and stirner
>>9172977
Stirner doesn't even belong on that list.
>live into Washington DC
>friend invites me to participate in a book club
>we're deciding next book
>the most important metric is whether the author is a woman or "person of color"
Well happy reading there are good books that aren't by white men so Ill think you'll be ok
>>9172890
I had a similar experience except all the books were shit tier fantasy and science fiction.
>>9172906
yeah all these retards love Harry Potter and similar books
What are your thoughts on the Oxford comma?
I personally think the Oxford Comma is a great invention, and perfect for usage to make distinctions between characters and objects.
>>9172838
Foolish, unnecessary and antiquated.
I like it. Not an expert on the debate, but I've seen examples in which its absence led to ambiguity. Beyond that I just think it looks good.
using punctuation marks at all
are you a neophyte