anyone reccomend more fun campus or young artist novels? they make me feel good to be young alive and a liberal arts student
I've read Portrait of the Artist
I just want to say that I like that book
>>9883765
Unironically my novelthat will never be published
>>9883765
Darconville's Cat
Stoner
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
The Recognitions (not college based but NYC)
honestly if you like farina and you haven't checked out pynchon I would change that immediately, they were homies
>>9883765
The middle three books of In Search of Lost Time, though you should read them all on general principle.
>>9884321
Me too.
>>9885620
>Stoner
>a fun campus or young artist novel
bump?
>puts down a toni morrison novel
>cracks open the latest new yorker
>downloads an npr podcast
>goes to a free summer concert series
>gets hair cut at place that serves whiskey, like back when real men shaved with straight razors
>wears an untucked gingham shirt not over a t-shirt and over-polished menswear wingtips
>waits three hours for a text from the new small plates pop-up restaurant
>orders the second least-expensive malbec
>tries to watch all the oscar nominees each year
>cannot believe how good the new rap album is
>goes to a coffee tasting
>orders a kindle and hard copy of the latest kwame ngobongo novel but listens to it on audiobook during commute to his new marketing job
>goes to four spinning classes a week
>talks about how busy life as a creative is
>buys a groupon for hamilton
>lives in new york city
>>9883765
Trout Fishing in America
>>9887801
this made me feel ill
>>9887801
Came here to post this
>>9883765
lucky jim
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis is supposedly good
>>9887801
>gives up trying to become a serious writer
>starts working at buzzfeed
>contracts HIV
>>9887801
>plays bass in a garage rock band
>charges $7 or more for his shitty EP on bandcamp
Thefirst ~200 pages of theSecret History by Donna Tartt were top-tier comfy literature. Elitary, too.
>>9887801
10/10
>>9883765
Do you think he and Pynchon ever fucked lol
>>9887801
good pasta but also that sounds like a pretty nice life imo
>>9885620
>Darconville's Cat
Probably not what OP is looking for, but a gr8 novel
>>9883765
Savage detectives my dude
>>9883765
Lucky Jim my nigga
>>9883765
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe.
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
>>9887801
bugs..