/lit/ - Literature

>>22043409
>White males are only around 6% of the global population
it's over...
whitebros, how do we win and take back literature?

>>22030009

so you want to be a writer?


if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.

don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.

when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was.

>>21762931

Looking for books with Jesters/clowns/fools as characters. I heard only recently that GoT series has a jester character and they never had him in the show. That is gay and I am mad.

Just finished Sol's story bros... Why would timeterminatorjew do that to her bros

Any book about the life of a medieval jester? I've read The Dwarf

>>20195228
>>20195286
wow

Why do the mud races try and tear down the Western Canon instead of organizing their own African/Muslims/Latinx Canon?

guys... didn't Satan effectively trick God in the book of Job? he made God bestow cruelty upon an innocent just to prove something (Job's faith) that the omniscient God already knew, and prove it to DEVIL HIMSELF nonetheless. wtf

>>18843015
I seriously enjoyed The Cask of Amontillado. Was probably the only required reading in my english course in college that I actually liked. Everyone else in my course including the lebo professor seemed to hate it though. Why is this? Also rec me some Poe if I liked it. It had a very brutal yet whimsical vacation like feel to it.

I saw a chart floating around titled "if Nautical Nonsense is something you wish"
Can't seem to find it though

Books that'll make me more interesting or provide the impetus to me become a more interesting

I love to sip whiskey and read until I pass out, does anyone have experience with other types of intoxicants and reading? Any that don't diminish reading comprehension like alcohol?

I like to read around 5 or 6 non fiction books at a time. I will read carefully and sometimes take notes but I don't usually read more than a chapter or two of each of them a day

Is this bad for reading comprehension the subjects tend to be different so I don't see confusing the topic being an issue?

I’m looking for an obscure book I read when I was younger, it was a collection of stories from India, and I think it was called ‘Night Train to (some Indian place)’. One of the stories I remember best was about an old lady who used to shoot monkeys for eating the daffodils in her garden, and one day a swarm of monkeys killed her? I think? The story was being narrated by an older gentleman to the author, although I’m not quite sure. If anyone recalls anything, or any books similar to it, please help me out.

>>17840002
Eh depends about the job thing. For instance I graduated in the middle of the pandemic but because I can just live at home with my parents and I got a CS degree, I'm better off staying home improving my skills and applying to more jobs rather then rushing to work minimum wage. I actually did have a job at a grocery store for a week back in the summer just cause I was bored, but that sucked too much and I quit after a week now I just occasionally delivery drive for doordash.

I'm confident I'll get a well paying job eventually, especially over the past couple months I've been getting interviews much more readily, its just boredom and trying to keep myself from becoming an alcoholic thats the big challenge.

Basically if you need the money you need the money and yeah you gotta get a job, but if not and you think there are better opportunities either open to you now, or you think will open up to you, don't rush to be a workcuck.

This advice is of course completely dependent in validity over if I do eventually get a job or not. I'll admit I only have 23 years of experience here on this earth, much spent in front of a computer screen, so I'm not sure I'm the first guy who should be giving life advice.