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be published or show an agent/publisher an excerpt that a publishere loves enough to give you money to finish it. it's exceedingly rare so don't bank on it. it will be tiny in any case.

>>8656065
I know that it's extremely rare, especially for unpublished authors. I don't need a huge one though like $5,000-$10,000 would work for me because I have no overhead costs but I need to show the people I'm living with that writing is making me money for them not to make my life a living hell for being a NEET.

>>8656071
write an excerpt and pray. you're probably not getting one.

>>8655912
He's repeating himself a lot, but it's worth it for his attentive unpacking of The Bridge alone. Wish he'd write a full book on Crane.

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Are there any other books which deal with the American sublime? I've been going through the Transcendentalists as well as the early American masters while reading sections for Matthiessen and Reynolds.
>>8655915
Just started getting into Crane, I spent the weekend reading and rereading The Bridge while gleaning notes from online. Bloom's book has been sitting on a shelf in my local bookstore for years now. Thanks for the heads up.

Got it and didn't really learn anything new or have my mind changed. One of Harry's worst imho

>>8655898

phallogocentrism

>>8655900
>looks up what phallogocentrism is
>finds out it was constructed by Derrida

trash, i mean did these french philosophers just make up shit to sound smart

Because retarded.

>>8655870
Washington DC has a few decent ones.

Second Story Books has lots of cool old stuff, along with solid nonfiction selections and pretty frequently renewed fiction.

Capitol Hill Books is the quintessential crammed bookstore, with everything double shelved and precariously stacked. Decent prices, wide variety, huge fiction section.

Idle Time Books is okay but doesn't have too wide a selection. Only found a few things I liked there.

Carpe Librum was a big disappointment. Like a barnes and noble for used books; huge sections of normie pop sci and genre fiction hardcovers lightly used. Very cheap, but I literally didn't find anything worth buying.

Also I went up to Boston a few months back, and Raven Used Books had the most impressive philosophy section I've seen in any store, ever. Apparently they get a ton of overstock material from Harvard, and get loads of great content in basically new condition.

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It's just called Adams Ave. Book Store. It's not in my neighborhood but they have cute cats, in addition to a decent variety of books. They're usually in excellent condition. The cats and the books.

>>8655942
Down in San Diego? I love that place. Really good selection for decent prices.

You ever been to DG Wills up in La Jolla?

to be honest, my diary

>>8655859

go to the fantasy containment thread if you're going to be a massive pleb

>>8655859
The Road by McCarthy.

lol no of course not

>>8655794
quite literally where do you think you are right now

Is that a picture of David Foster Wallace?

>>8655711
Fuck off, frog shit

>>8655719
Hey man, I'm just looking for some titles.

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Don't start with those fags they rarely wrote about chicks.

>>8655667
nope

>>8655667
We could probably make that statement even more universal.

"Is every high school X teacher a failed X?"

I can agree with the above proposition.

>>8655667
quite the contrary

>>8655618
Take the redpill instead, retard.

Read Schopenhauer's 'On Women' and
Mein Kampf. Throw in My Twisted World for good measure

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>>8655634
Nothing of value was lost.

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I quite like this one

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I read several of these Christian Goosebumps knockoffs. Parents wouldn't let me read anything unless it was Christian.

>Daniel is afraid he has created a giant mutant rat, but his neighbor Brad thinks maybe his guilty conscience is involved, and tries to convince Daniel to let God help him get rid of the rat.

Read it two or three times, I think.

The Bruno and Boots series by Gordon Korman. Or anything by him. He's a Canadian YA author and his books are hilarious

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There was this random YA type scifi with a bunch of bio-tech worldbuilding. I think it was Frag-something. The whole story is basically ET, an alien lands and befriends a boy then they escape and have adventures and eventually have to deal with aliens who want to cancel Earth's tv run. Doing so would destroy earth, so the kid has to bargain with the evil tv exec aliens to keep earth around.
I only remembered it because another recent anime used the 'earth is used by aliens for tv shows' plotline.

Also my pic. Comfy as fuck.

Beyond Good and Evil also you type like are young and I recommend starting with Kant before Nietzsche

>>8655527
you don't even understand the context, little shit.

>>8655545
>recommending someone young to read Kant

Not a very good idea, buddy.

that's not a picture of me

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>>8655486
>tfw OP is talking about me

I'm going to do my best to make /lit/ proud

>>8655486
Michael Moorcock's pretty good, but i don't think he ever hung out here.

post an excerpt

>>8655415
>One Punch Man
Pleb, you were never capable of greatness

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>>8655415

Just read and watch depressing stuff to get in the mood for writing.

>>8655316
This is OP:

I've never read him before and want to get spooked.

So, listen up. It was the early 1900's and people didn't know shit about science back then, but I gotta tell ya. The natural world is scary as shit and don't go poking around in it. I was poking around in it. And brother, you are not gonna believe what I found. It's just like my buddy the Mad Arab said in his obscure book of exposition that I constantly lament having read. Human life is small and recent and dwarfed by that big ass shit that came from other planets and lived on earth way before us in places we ought not go poking around in. But like I told you, I went poking around in it. In those aeon-dead places, and I saw some scary-ass shit. It was so scary, I'm not even gonna tell you. I don't think I even can tell you. I'm not entirely certain human words can explain how scary this shit was. But okay. Since it's what you came for. It was like a tentacle monster. But like with a bugs face? God it was scary. Scary and inhuman and inhabiting an aeon-dead land just like one described by my good buddy The Mad Arab in his obscure book of exposition which, did I mention this? Oh gosh this shit was so scary I kept thinking how much I really shouldn't have read that book. And this tentacle monster, it was chasing me. And it was making this weird inhuman sound. Of course it wasn't human so naturally the sound it made was inhuman. And gosh it was pretty frikin scary and I was thinking how the sound it made was just like a sound described by my bud The Mad Arab cause he had a dream about it once. Anyway I just managed to escape so lemme tell ya. The natural world is some scary ass shit. Don't go pokin around in it.

http://arkhamarchivist.com/free-complete-lovecraft-ebook-nook-kindle/

Just use this

"Ultimate" man is a weird translation. Last man sounds more appropriate.

I don't believe in spook ideologies or philosophies

>>8655267
what do you think ultimate means