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BEN BROOKS NOW A PENGUIN AUTHOR 2017-01-25 01:48:52 Post No. 9019961
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So /lit/ favorite Ben Brooks just had his novel "Grow Up" reprinted by Penguin.
>"In this bawdy, raucous, and unabashedly frank novel, youth is certainly not wasted on the young
>Hailed as "one of the most hilarious and well-observed accounts of teenage debauchery you are ever likely to read" by the trendsetting British lifestyle magazine Dazed & Confused, Ben Brooks’s Grow Up is a shocking, stylish, and very modern coming-of-age story.
>As Jasper J. Wolf careens through high school, his list of to-dos includes: get high with friends, seduce the hottest girl in school, and, last but not least, expose his stepfather as a murderer. But as growing up soon teaches him, what he wants and what he gets are often wildly different—and decidedly unexpected."
Excerpt(s) below!
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‘Jasper?’
‘Who is it?’
‘Abby.’
‘Uh. Hi, Abby.’
‘My period is late by two weeks, Jasper.’
‘THEN FUCKING HURRY IT UP.’
Tears (not mine).
‘I think I’m pregnant Jasper.’
‘I’m sorry, I think you have the wrong number.’
I hang up. I am insensitive and cruel. I am scared.
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>>9019961
Go to bed Ben
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>>9019961
Is there any writer younger than 30 who deserves to be called a prodigy? Are untalented kids like this one the only thing literature is capable of producing in this day and age?
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>>9019964
>I hang up. I am insensitive and cruel. I am scared.
Sounds like an early Los Campesinos song.
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>>9019973
Los Campesinos are quotes at the start of the award-winning novel
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>>9019961
No one here likes you Ben and your shirt is gay
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>>9020024
I love reading books by authors too scared to actually write.
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>>9020038
I love punching you in the face
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>>9019961
Tattos are ugly. Ive never read a good book by someone tattoed
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>>9020025
no it isn't
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>>9019961
>BEN BROOKS
literally who?
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>>9020177
Orwell was tattooed. DFW was tattooed. Tao Lin is tattooed.
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>>9020072
I doubt those stubs could reach.
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>>9020208
All of them are shit.
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>>9020205
Pic related.
>"His publisher at Fugue State Press didn't know that he was 17 when his first book, Fences, was released"
>""I had to write about Philip Larkin". Brooks describes Larkin as "a boring cunt"
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>>9019961
why do these fucking annoying faggots always leech off of outsider music? theyre fucking cunts that believe themselves to be snowflakes and understanding of these people
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>>9020208
It's only cool if you're actually talented
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>>9020223
>Going from one scene to another past the age of 15
There is no sight more depressing
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