Can someone recommend a literary magazine that publishes a fair amount of new (interesting) material - short stories, poetry, whatever. I'm not interested in submitting anything, just interested in reading new short-form stuff regularly.
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The only lit mag I subscribe to is NYRB but they aren't really focused on publishing fiction/poetry as much as I gather you are looking for. I'd look into academic publications like Ploughshares.
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Tin House is a big one. I'm not too familiar with it, but a lot of my friends are obsessed with it. It's highly respected in the literary community.
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Poetry Chicago and McSweeny are decent i think.
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What are some Aesthetic pleasing books?
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>>7672608
fuck off, you weeb piece of shit
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>>7672611
you are still on 4chan buddy.
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>>7672631
I can choose not to enjoy it though
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Why give any money to the publishing industry when it's a bunch of ivy league roasties with vanity jobs and investment banker husbands and a feminist agenda?
Do you guys seriously think these people are the judges of what is and isn't worthwhile art? Why are you all so artistically bankrupt?
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/us-study-finds-publishing-is-overwhelmingly-white-and-female
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I'm Black so they'll publish me on principle.
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>>7672597
You bring up an interesting point but I don't have an answer for you.
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>>7672597
>Do you guys seriously think these people are the judges of what is and isn't worthwhile art?
Literally no one thinks that. Publishing is about profits over everything else.
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Hey /lit/, first time thread creator here, the thing is, i need recomendations for some short novels/stories to adapt into a play for school, i just started browsing here and reading in the beginning of the year and i've read 1984 and The Stranger so far but 1984 seems kinda dificult to make into a play and The Stranger has some topics and emotions that would be difficult to act and make people understand, please help a /lit/noob out
I am Mexican btw (if that helps)
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The Story of O
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Luna de Pluton by Dross is the number one book in Mexico right now
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>>7672565
Do you live in Texas?
John Dryden's Two Act Play 'The Conquest of Granada' would probably make a big splash there.
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I don't understand how so many people are capable of writing whole books. How can you get yourself to sit there every day for months and write? How do you manage to keep hammering at the same idea for so long without deciding to change things or deciding the whole thing is retarded and a waste of time?
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In your opinion, what is a better use of time ?
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>>7672421
They just write instead of succumbing to anxiety about writing, anon
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>>7672425
It's not about what I think is worth my time. I just get bored or distracted or writer's block or I want to try out a new concept that isn't compatible with my story
Favorite quotes thread
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Marco Aurelio is great. Also
>The Master said "Is it not a pleasure, having learned something, to try it out at due intervals? Is not a joy to have like-minded friends come from afar? If it not gentlemanly to not take offence when others fail to appreciate your abilities?"
-Confucius
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>witty wit wit wit witticisms
quoth me
*tips appreciated, my fellow sirs*
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>>7672399
thats retarded
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>guy is best friends with a retard
>retard kills a bitch
>oh shit, better kill my best friend
What was the point of this book?
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>>7672368
To out you a soulless monstrosity.
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>>7672368
Are you missing the point on purpose or are you just a moron?
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>>7672368
it was a mercy kill master b8er
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So what is your excuse for not reading Hart Crane? 2016-02-07 23:42:03 Post No.7672318
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So what is your excuse for not reading Hart Crane?
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Garden Abstract
The apple on its bough is her desire,--
Shining suspension, mimic of the sun.
The bough has caught her breath up, and her voice,
Dumbly articulate in the slant and rise
Of branch on branch above her, blurs her eyes.
She is prisoner of the tree and its green fingers.
And so she comes to dream herself the tree,
The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins,
Holding her to the sky and its quick blue,
Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight.
She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope
Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.
-Hart Crane
Whatever excuse you had I ve just obliterated.
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not impressed
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Not even the best of his earlier works. He is great though
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Because he's exit level to get.
Is the nobel prize in literature relevant at all?
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No.
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>>7672265
Yes
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It's a prestigious award but it is awarded to people that make shit/ok lit for political reasons
Example: Churchill
Coetzee
Selma Lagerloff
Off the top of my mind
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what reading would you recommend to someone with a low IQ that just wants to enjoy themselves
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/lit/
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>>7672255
The Odyssey
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Game of thrones
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Sorry if this is a dumb question but... How do these long and short syllables in Latin and Greek hexametre work? Are the long ones supposed to be pronounced more slowly or what?
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>>7672221
LMAO WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?
HEXAMETRE?? did u spell that right?? haha
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There are languages which do not have vowel length; which do not give a fuck about vowels and have shit ton of consonants instead. Why do you speak? If you are a native to English or German I'd ask you to fuck off and stop trolling us since your language does have this shit as well.
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>>7672243
I'm a Slav and what the fuck are you talking about? I just want to know how the Romans pronounced Virgil's verses and what's the difference between a long and a short syllable.
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Can I be an upcoming poet fag and dump my emo poems?
Just another star, just a flaming ball of light
The one that warms us all doesn’t interest me
Luna, you propel my soulless night
Your white light just sets me free
During the new moon I’ve lost my way
Seeing you brings me comfort, brings me glee
Sometimes you watch me in the day
But your smile’s not all I see
You’re my morphine, my cocaine
The gates to my soul, you’re the key
You’ll see me suffer, see my pain
But never will you pay my fee
How I long to be with the moon
I will forever ponder she
And while I won’t be there soon
My love I sure can guarantee
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Oh sweet sundrop, golden yellow
Tanned brown, and orange mellow
Beauty of light, but light of fire
Oh sweet sundrop, of my desire
Be you heaven, or Be you hell?
“That is something I won’t tell
Young boy fallen to my spell.”
Oh sweet sundrop, as you fall
ever graceful the the light cast from a height so tall
Oh sweet sundrop, your ringing plop
For your nectar, will I stop?
“For my sweetness just a drop?
When I splash, your tongue’s to mop
You’ll find my heart, shatter your spell
But never damned, that I fell.”
In my ecstasy a haze
Just my fever, I only phase
Oh sweet sundrop, to which I praise
Will these be our final days?
“Infinity young lad, is what you have
but I am not again to raise.”
Oh salty teardrops, the rhythm plays
Those of which obscure my gaze
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Work on ye rhymes
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>>7672110
10/10
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Why should books be considered as anything other than entertainment? Why am I supposed to take half assed half hidden philosophy in books seriously?
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Kill yourself hedonist
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>>7672066
>Why should books be considered as anything other than entertainment?
Because they can be more?
Between a book that's entertaining and a book that's entertaining but also thought-provoking, why would you choose the former?
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The more likely to please you event called Super Bowl is about to start, why don't you go watch with your likewise stupid friends and leave this board? Saged and reported.
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Who is the more pleb writer of them all? Not worst, more pleb
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this doesn't answer your question, but i just read On Writing by him and it was the worst thing i've ever read. what a smug, anti-intellectual moron.
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>>7671926
Dean Koontz
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>>7671926
King isn't too bad, there's SFF, YA, and those women who write stories about their cats being kings that are more pleb.
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Books with good representations of narcotic use?
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Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks is the most unbiased and realistic portrayal of narcotic use ever put to paper.
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>>7671902
choose...
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>>7671902
Junky by Burroughs was supposed to be pretty accurate and based on his actual experiences of being a filthy smack addict.
>>7671907
ayy lmao
I actually had to read that shit in high school as part of this one elective class. Shit was ridiculous. We even watched the movie where William Shatner plays her dad.