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What are good places to post and get literary criticism?
The sites I know:
Writers Cafe
Critique Circle
Scribophile
FictionPress
>inb4 lit LCT
They're shit. We all know that.
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>>7576748
>Scribophile
trash
just get an editor nigga
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>>7576748
Why would you post your work anywhere publicly? Including here?
You guys know that when it's on the internet, it's considered published, right?
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Discuss Graham Greene's 'The Quiet American'.
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>>7576736
"No"
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This board isn't for genre fiction senpai
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Laptops/Keyboards for Writing
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Not really sure if I should post this on /g/ or /lit/, but...
For those of you who write, what type of laptop do you own and prefer? I'm looking for a decent laptop with a nice keyboard, though I'm also open to buying a keyboard if there's a comfy one to type on. I'm really use to flat keyboards (I usually type on an old macbook pro my dad use to own), but I'm willing to try anything that you all might think is better. Other than that, I don't care for anything else. I would use it mostly for typing, along with web surfing and watching videos. It would be nice if it had decent memory for starting up programs, or expandable memory. Any recommendations from you all will be appreciated.
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For marathon typing you will want a standing desk with a mechanical keyboard anged down (spacebar the highest point)
If you insist upon sitting like a WALL-E subposthuman whale then just get a Levono ThinkPad
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>>7576661
Any mechanical keyboard you would personally recommend?
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>>7576661
>he fell for the mechanical keyboard meme
Are there any published philosophers born as part of the Millennial generation?
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What exactly are you looking for? I know personally some people that obtained their PhDs post-2000 that have articles published if that counts. But I don't think you're looking for stuff relating to super specific issues in modal logic and whatnot.
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I'm looking for philosophical thoughts that take into account the realities of the modern access to information
>poor impulse control
>no work ethic
>no attention span
>no memory of facts since they can easily be looked up
>desire for new material possessions due to constant exposure to ads for them
>craving for attention being able to be fulfilled in disgusting ways like camwhoring instead of inspiring proper self-advancement
>extremely polar gender roles plus ^^^ craving for attention resulting in gender dysmorphia
>cumulative stress reaction (ptsd for kids with affluenza)
Etc etc etc obviously I know these things don't apply to everyone but they are fairly new and intriguing issues for humans to deal with
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>>7576676
Don't think I can help you there m8, sorry. I hang around people working on logic more than anything.
Try searching around philpapers.org. You can organize your search by topic and publication date.
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A bit of an odd thing, can I ask here? 2016-01-12 17:00:00 Post No.7576634
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A bit of an odd thing, can I ask here?
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Does any of you know of any torrents or sites or whatever is free of charge that one can use to read books in French? I'm particularly looking for Romanian books in French if it's possible, thank you all anyway! I'm asking here because I don't know where else to ask, sorry all!
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>>7576634
It's pretty limited and all over the place desu. You'll get results from the main french torrent sites through google, and a few general file-sharing sites carry them as well.
You can try
>http://toutbox.fr
, otherwise just use libgen.
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>public 'intellectuals'
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>>he doesn't know Camilo José Cela
>Gtfo pleb
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>private 'intellectuals'
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RIP /lit/. Literature, as we know it, is done. It's over, baby.
At least we can put the question of what we're calling the new movement to bed, I guess? It's definitely Metamodernism now and not New Sincerity or whatever other name. So we got that goin' for us. Which is nice.
Have a look:
https://vimeo.com/128745653
http://metabook.com/
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>>7576408
Stop caring about stupid shit, you dumb faggot
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>>7576408
>It's definitely Metamodernism now and not New Sincerity
But the most popular and hyped book series of contemporary literature in recent memory is all about New Sincerity and New Sentimentalism.
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Anyone here in an MFA program? Should I be trying to get into one if I want to be a writer? Which are the good ones?
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If you want to write trite YA shit that you stole from your students, sure.
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>>7576304
If you're poor, consider doing it just for the opportunity to get funded. If you're rich, there's a lot better stuff you could do with your money and time, but maybe some connections could come out of it? My favorite professor taught in MFAs for a long time and says that he wouldn't ever push an undergrad to get one unless it made a lot of financial sense and they had a ton of ambition. I really can't ever see paying for one, but it's more worthwhile if you can get funding.
I think teaching at MFA workshops is a far cry from attending them. Loads of wonderful authors have taught at MFAs, but most of those writers don't have an MFA themselves.
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Is there any good book 2016-01-12 15:11:05 Post No.7576260
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Is there any good book that wasn't written by a skeleton?
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This was written by a sentient gas cloud.
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Worthless shitposting. You're worthless, OP.
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>>7576260
Do you mean skinny or dead? Cos I figure you never trust a fat writer or one with a hot wife like you never trust a skinny chef.
Posthumous writers are best, better still if they never published in their lifetime.
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Is it shit?
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Well?
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No it's quite good, tense, cool and saddening.
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>>7576294
Does it get any better after the first few chapters? It's shit so far.
Best. Book. Ever.
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>>7576211
What's it about?
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>>7576211
NO.
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is all character like fodyor dostoevsky that spill the Italian spaghetti
thank you
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I don't understand
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Nigga u high
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ITT: books you can read to your cat 2016-01-12 14:10:33 Post No.7576102
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ITT: books you can read to your cat
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Haha that Pynchon!! What a character :^)
I'm looking for books with moral background, that may teach a lesson, that make you think, such as 1984, Animal Farm, Brand New World, Blindless... any recs?
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>>7576041
Since you like boring prose and having another's opinion shoved down your throat, try To Kill a Mockingbird.
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>>7576041
Plutarchs Lives, Hesse, Most of the South American canon like Juan Rulfo Borges Marquez and Llosa.
Stay away from summer reading books.
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Has Mark Z Danielewski gone mad, or what? 2016-01-12 13:29:47 Post No.7576039
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Has Mark Z Danielewski gone mad, or what?
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The Familiar is probably going to be 27 volumes, about 800 pages each. This guy has either gone crazy, or become a hack. Really though, either way, it isn't good. A 20,000 page book? Even Proust would blush at that.
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Each book is about 300 pages of text.
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>>7576039
>or become a hack
No: he was always a hack.
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Become a hack? All his novels are just a bunch of magazine cut-outs and photos of doorstoppers with ~14 words per page about a quirky dude. If his first book didn't convince you he was a hack, I doubt his 28 other ones will.