Is your city /lit/, anon?

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>>9292293
>Knoxville

Yes, very much so.

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yes

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What makes a city /lit/

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>Halifax, NS

Yes, just look at our library.

>rural upstate NY
>/lit/

soon I will move to NYC to mooch off bourgeois literary Jews

>>9292419
Jesus Christ that pic anon.
Let's not veer too far from the topic at hand, but lads, what would you rate this here wench? I'm gunna say 4/10

Not really. I live in a small town in Norway with about 30000 inhabitants. The town used to be 95% working class people that worked at either the steel wire factory, or the glass factory.

>>9292431
>those distributions
if they knew anything about book stacking, they would know that's suboptimal. i don't trust it.

>>9292419
Every city I go to is lit baby.

It is a very /lit/ place with XVI century colonial architecture.

>>9292444
How far away from Syracuse are you?

>>9292293
denver

most of the people here are illiterate goons with no passion or goal in life. so, yes, very /lit/

>>9292469
Denver was the favorite city of Neal Cassady

>>9292465
im in a small town near Hudson

>>9292483
unfortunately the denver of neal cassady's time has died and been replaced with the metropolitan equivalent of a full diaper

>>9292487
>hudson is upstate
You are like little baby.
Come read my book near the canadian border

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Providence, RI
Moderately /lit/. Lovecraft lived here, and I can walk to his grave in ~15 minutes. Poe spent some time here, and McCarthy was born here.

>>9292493
Sad!

>>9292378
nigga, you can't be serious. pockets of the university are /lit/, and very much so, but Knoxville as a whole? you're smoking a rock.

>>9292378
>Knoxville
Yeah, I'm gonna have to say no.

>>9292501
tfw close to Massachusetts

JUST

I love in a poor and violent South American town, so not /lit/ at all.

>>9292293
>Seattle
Yes, but in all the worst ways

>Working class white suburb of Chicago
No, it's relatively dull here.

>>9292747
head down to south side and start bangin
lots of good material

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>>9292793

>>9292293

Yes, very much so, by American standards anyway. It regularly competes with Seattle for "most /lit/ city in the country", based upon basic, actual metrics (libraries per capita, bookstores, newspapers etc)

If by /lit/ you mean on heroin then yes.

>>9292825
Styx?

>New York

you tell me lol

>>9292293
>San Diego

The weather is too nice. We're a bunch of surfer bros who are uncultured and stoned. That said, I'd still like to write the great SoCal novel someday.

>>9292747
>Upper middle class suburb of Chicago
You're not missing much

>>9292870
student? I went to UCSD but I finished and moved East.

>>9292887
no. upper middle class thirty something. i went to school in los angeles, which is a hell hole except for venice beach

>>9292419
id fuck the shit out of those gums baby

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Maybe kafkaesque. I am stuck in a little bend of suburb near St. George, Utah, surrounded by a fence and a river. They forgot to build a gate. Please send assistance.

>Philadelphia

maybe but it fucking sucks.

>>9293038
hey bro, Center City here, what's good?

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>>9292870
I'm a surfer bro who liked to get stoned, but I'm on the East Coast (NJ). The shore is not very /lit/ but it's got its share of characters.

>>9293072
it's too fucking cold to surf here mate.

>>9293088
5 mil wetsuit, hood, boots, gloves baby

>>9292870
what part of sd anon

>Austin
I literally live in pseud city. Something that has happened with multiple people is that I will ask them what book they are reading, and then when I ask them again a few months that later, they say the same book. I don't just mean Normies, these are people who act like they strong opinions on philosophy, politics, literature, etc., but in reality they are just larping pseuds.

>>9293440
Not him but I live in a suburb near Del Mar that's filled with retired affluent white people and Asians. Pretty fucking boring around here. Right now I'm finishing my last semester of community college before transferring to UC Irvine where I will live among even more Asians.

>>9292870
Sorry I'm already writing that novel

>>9292293
My city is YA

>Bologna, Italy
More /leftypol/ than /lit/ t b h

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New London CT

Lots of hipsters and trust fund babies and niggers. So not very /lit/ but, it's about an hour away from new bedford, where moby dick took place, so that's something right?

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You fucking bet

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Maybe in the past. I don't even know anymore.

>>9292293
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Very lit

>tfw lots of book stores in your city but they all spout liberal propaganda on their Facebook and advertisements

>>9292293
I remember the first time i rubbed one out to this pic.

South Jersey
No. Suburban hell. Philly is a short train ride away though. Penn is kinda lit. Some cool small theater troupes in center city.

Nottingham

Home of DH Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe, as well as the Robin Hood myth. Lit enough.

Belfast.

I'd say yeah, my uni had a lot of great writers teaching or did teach there

No, it's a grey, post-industrial shithole

It's statistically more likely that an inhabitant huffs petroleum than they are to be literate

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>>9292293
yes.

>>9293744
Zagreb here. I envy you a little bit, you have much better concerts there.

No

We have literally one bookshop and it barely has anything good in it

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I live near the city of Romeo and Juliet

Cracow, it's UNESCO city of literature

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>Newry
No, as a matter of fact it's barely a city either.

It is very, very /IRA/ though.

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>>9293974
>>9294066
>>9294223
What's with all the Northern Ireland anons on /lit/?

Is NI /lit/?

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>>9292293
>>9292293
>Montréal

We've got this dude.

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pretty lit

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>>9294234
Land of saints and scholars lad, nothing better to do on march evenings than a bottle of wine and a book. Im south of the border though.

>>9292825
Yeah me too. I'm from Baltimore. Not very "lit" but the Baltimore/Washington area has a lot of biomedical researchers and bourgeoisie.

>Greensboro/Charlotte, NC

Eh. Greensboro has Unicorn Press for poetry which is okay, and O. Henry was born here, but that's about it. And Charlotte, no, not at all, banks/corporatism and transplants, no culture. Still, I enjoy wandering downtown through both. That's /lit/?

>>9292293
>middle of the American midwest
No, definitely not.

>>9292378
>>9292584
>>9292606
Knoxville is the setting of Suttree, at the least, and little landmarks here and there to it and Cormac McCarthy, who grew up there. The average person doesn't recognize any of it, but that's still /lit/ af desu.

>>9292877
Where you at, bro? Naperville here. It's boring and superficial but at least it's comfy.

>>9292456
how many people know who's knausgaard over there?

since we're in the era of postmodernism and all, shouldn't the typical "literary" cities become non-literary and the non-literary become literary.

I propose Gary IN the Mecca of literature.

>>9292378
Seymour checking in, you are wrong.

>>9292293
>'s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
My country as a whole isn't /lit/. The only people I can discuss literature with are (usually white) immigrants. At least we have a nice cathedral.

>>9292842
fellow new yorker. very much yes obvi

>>9295291
I post-ironically believe that Gary, Indiana has huge /lit/ potential.

>>9293701
no it's not

>>9292469
it's also where Elrond Cupboard's Battlefield Earth is set. So take that for what its worth.

is the bay area /lit/?

>>9293744
I love our libraries, NUK is top comfy

>Galveston, TX
Yes I'd say so. We have Rosenberg Library which is the oldest still operating library in Texas, originally built in 1904. Don't really think it's that popular though, only among the homeless that used to use its bathrooms to wash themselves.

Don't know if it's true but I've read buenos aires has the most libraries per capita.

>>9294234
it punches above its weight.

>>9296682
Of course not.

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>>9297271

>>9296691
>TX
>oldest still operating...1904

You should travel more and get some fucking perspective, you goddamn shit clod.

>>9297492
What library in Texas is older that is still in operation? And I've traveled around the world so I'm not sure what your problem is lol.

>>9292469
>tfw boulder

>>9292739
Bolanño would disagree, Garcia

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Used to be way more lit but it's still pretty great. I don't fuck with Kendall Square though.

>>9297499
The oldest library in your shitkicking state known for its retards doesn't magically make your "city" /lit/.

>>9297528
Calm down retard.

>>9297515
How so?

>>9297492
>>9297528
Geez relax you autistic faggot!

>>9292817
Which city

>>9293468
im a phd student at Austin, the city is pretty much full of techies, and lowlives that think that being a sandwich maker at Thundercloud subs is the "hip lifestyle". they're all loser scum. its a fun city but the university is the only redeemable quality, besides the nature in Hill Country.

its pseud central

>>9296874
fuck
why.. not...

>>9292293
I live in the most illiterate city in the United States.

>>9293468
>>9297729
i like it desu
makes u a god amongst pseuds

>>9297742
Which is...

>>9297535
Because you're living the infrarrealismo lifestyle

>>9293744
I'm traveling through there this summer, any recommendations of places to check out?

>>9297956
Being poor is the infrarrealismo lifestyle?

> San Francisco

Psh... nothin personnel... kid

It's great living in a 1% playground where every bookshelf is full of uncreased spines except for copies of Cracking the Coding Interview and Lean In

I hope the ghosts of the beat poets summon an earthquake via snapping fingers from beyond the grave

Long Island. Not /lit/, but Pynchon and Whitman are from here, and the great gatsby so I guess that counts for something

I mean I guess Sydney has a literary scene, as does any large city, but it's not a very inspiring one. I do love this city, it's very pretty to look at and it doesn't suck to live here even if it is expensive. But /lit/, probably not.

>>9292740
>this

Also, do we have any authors or is it pretty much just Macklemore?

>>9293749
Seattle?

I live in a dead industrial town in Australia. Couldn't be further from /lit/

>Toronto
Home of several University's and filled with arts and pretentious hipsters.
Many good bookstores.
There haven't been many great literary scenes from Toronto but many /lit/ people have stopped on by.

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>>9292293
Yes.

>>9298978
where's that anon?

im in cairns. i dont think anything literary has ever happened here.

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>>9292293

schweinfurt, bavaria, germany 50000k inhabitants: friedrich rückert (pretty good poet, listen to mahler's kindertotenlieder for the musical interpretation/ "knew" 44 languages/ decent translation of the quran) and some other less important/in one case (tommy jaud) appalling popular authors. for the germans among you: hanns peter zwißler and his bröll.

bamberg, bavaria about 75k: hegel stayed here for a while ( he did not like it...), eta hoffmann ( his tales and death elixir are rightfully in the western canon) and hans wollschläger who worked with lits patron arno schmidt and translated ulysses and finnegans wake.


pretty decent for bumfuck nowhere

I live in a village of 200 people.

>>9294478
Word