/lit/ - Literature

Right here in our very rooms, shitposting endlessly on /lit/. This is the most /lit/ place to live.

Joyce's Dublin, wherever that is

>>7112295
/lit/: The bedroom without walls

my house tbh

up your own arse.

illuminated by one of those strange clip-on reading lights.

I've always thought Scotland would be a great place to live for a writer. That, or rural/coastal Maine.

Wherever I can write in my diary, tbh

In a big city with a small town feel.

>>7112292
Walden

Where is the best place in the United States to avoid mosquitoes?

Balliol college, Oxford. Anywhere else and you might as well stop living.

>>7112292
That book world in the Neverending Story

>>7112292
Brooklyn or somewhere foggy

>>7112292
Good options include

A wealthy small town in New England
Santa Fe
A cabin in the hills in California
Mexico City
Boston
Anywhere in Japan
Manhattan
New Orleans

Anything but these is a compromise if you're an American writing in English.

Montauk

>>7112497

I have a friend who summers there with her family

She says the place itself is great but the people who live there are cunts and it gets packed to the gills with tourists from late June to August.

>>7112292
Backwoods of Vermont

>>7112647
you sound depressed

>>7112647

I live there.

It's pretty fun, and it's easy to isolate yourself. Stay away from the Northeast Kingdom though

>>7112667
Fellow Vermonter. Outside the greater Burlington area, everything is backwoods. You'd need to be more specific.

ho chi minh city
moscow
caracas
liverpool

>>7112677
are you just naming random cities?

>>7112677
>>caracas
I'm Venezuelan, and fuck no.
Just don't.

>>7112689
Sounds like he's naming places where you'd never want to leave you house.

those small, old New England islands that require ferries to access like in moonrise kingdom

though modern technology has certainly killed it

>>7112689
no. they are cities with interesting histories

a writer should be immersed in the spirit world history and not let xrmself rot in backwaters of the world

>>7112699
callate papi

>>7112730
there are a lot of cities with interesting histories

>>7112332
Problem is it's full of Scots.

I thought the place was romantic too until I met the denizens.

Wily bastards tricked me into giving myself a minor concussion headbutting a target painted on a corrugated steel fence. and doing a shot of human piss.

Top lads tbh.

on some secluded island city state ran by a philosopher king where everyone dresses in togas and argues all day

>>7112292
>inb4 cultural marxists getting BTFO by based redpilled Breivik

>>7112762
My ideal, tbh.

>>7112292
I like residing in SE Asia. Cheap for good quality of life. Sunshine, beaches, good food, hot eurobabes, and hookers, and plenty of time to read and write.

Martha's Vineyard

Your nan's room, tbh

>>7112301
Underrated post.

>>7112756
>Wily bastards tricked me into giving myself a minor concussion headbutting a target painted on a corrugated steel fence. and doing a shot of human piss.
Classic Scots tbh.

>>7113144
I live in a place like that.

Writers make places literary, places don't make literary writers. So when my magnum opus gets published and the great wave of its influence begins to rise, wherever I'm residing at the time will be the most literary place on the planet, whether it's Paris or the middle of the American Nowhere. It's hard to say where that'll be. I don't know where I'll be tomorrow let alone when I'm 24.

In a major European city during the interwar period.

>>7112292
Some place without internet, so I can actually read instead of browse korean cooking forums.

>>7112675

Milton. The swampy bit

I live near the Alps and it's good here

>>7112292
my island. OP pic related

>>7112292
eastern europe

>>7112299
Ireland.

>>7112496
You start with "good options include," but then you decide that your list is definitive, when it clearly isn't. You forget some great ones, and Manhattan sucks dicks for being an actual writer.

>>7112677
>Liverpool
I always thought I should break up my creative process a little bit by getting stabbed on the way to the shops.

Somewhere deprived but with life, so New Orleans as opposed to Detroit.
Also you would have to be part of the depravity, no gentrifying wannabes

>>7112756

See the thing is, you volunteered for that stuff. You couldve always said "no" and moved on. It's not the Middle East, they won't behead you or burn you alive for not following their customs.

When I was in Ireland the locals kept trying to get me to drink weird shit, I just said "nah thanks" and went back to my Black and Tan. They always just shrugged and said "suit yourself" and went off to find some other idiot to do whatever dumb dare they were going on about.

>>7114120
New Orleans got pretty gentrified when the hurricane destroyed the poor's homes.

>>7112292
Scandinavia, South America or maybe Portugal

>>7114120
>no gentrifying wannabes
>I listened to the NPR content on New Orleans and know exactly what is going on tier response
Without the so-called gentrifying wannabes, NOLA would be Detroit right now. Honestly, a lot of the wannabes are more interested in preserving the local culture than I have seen in a lot of other cities. Yeah, some melanin rich individuals are angry their neighborhoods are being priced out of reach, but NOLA is one of the cheapest metro areas to live in, if you can't afford anything but the lower 9th and the projects, don't complain that the actual good parts of town are actually becoming what they are worth.
Also lol
>muh depravity
The depravity you're thinking of is either gang violence or what you know from that time you visited Bourbon Street.

>>7112667

Second this.

Northeast Kingdom is the West Virginia of New England. Stay away unless getting caught up in the heroin scene or getting shot by moonshiners is your idea of a good time.

Fun fact: the vast majority of Downs kids in the state either come from NEK or Jericho because so many people there are either cousin fuckers or ultra-Christians who insist on cranking out kids into their 50s.

Whenever I see a "Keep Vermont Weird" bumper sticker I always chuckle because usually the driver is an out-of-state college kid who thinks the "weird" side of Vermont is Ben and Jerry's and writer's colonies and DUDE WEED LMAO and they have no idea we have this dark region of the state that no one talks about or visits

>>7112730

>xrmself

did your keyboard just sneeze

>>7114086
nice right wing stereotype m8. liverpool is actually a nice comfy city for a yung creativ

>>7114172
Dude northern New Hampshire, I'm assuming you don't mind the cold being as you live in Vermont, is pretty as fuck. The Green mts are so nice in the summer.

Mexico City
Anywhere in New England
Hong Kong
Moscow
Tucson
Sausalito

>>7114318

That they are. Fall is gorgeous too.

>>7114448

Why do so many people put Mexico City on their list?

>hmm what will get the creative juices flowing
>I know, I'll live in the middle of a 4-way cartel war where they still have the Black Death and more kidnappings than anywhere else in the world

>>7114477
It's a global alpha city, the cultural center of Central America and rivals Paris and London for museums and old churches. Pynchon and Burroughs worked there among others, Leon Trotsky was assassinated there and it's home to the center of Latin American student revolutionary culture. Some of us who aren't monolingual enjoy using our Spanish and fucking Latina girls.

Cartels don't operate in the city because that would ruin their uneasy peace with the federales and you have to be stupid to get kidnapped unless you're a celebrity in which case your security has to be stupid.

>>7114477
>implying D.F. isn't incredibly safe

madrid

parque del retiro all day

>No mention of Italy

I lived and taught in Turin at the base of the Alps while working on my writing.

The school I taught at was named after Calvino too. Stay pleb /lit/.

>>7112456
what is the best college from Maths and Philosophy, applying in october. pls

>>7112478
Brooklyn's terrible unless you're a trust fund babby.

>>7114568
i have an inheritance fund and planning to move to manhattan. i thought brooklyn was where the poors lived

>>7114448
>Anywhere in New England
kek

>>7114496
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/05/14/cartels-strike-mexico-city-government-downplays-cartel-rescue-attempt-and-dismembered-bodies/
>As the Mexican government continues to downplay cartel violence, a group of cartel gunmen stormed a federal police station in Mexico City in an effort to rescue the brother of a jailed capo. In that same day Mexican authorities found 11 bags filled with human remains in a nearby train station.
Not anymore, hombre.

>>7114592
>i have an inheritance fund
donate it to charity and live in the woods until you die like the guy from into the wild

>>7114592
Only the ghetto parts. Most of the poors live in the Bronx.

>>7114496
Fuck off Enrxque

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>>7112292
Kreuzberg, berlin.

>>7114723
underrated post

>>7114086
Liverpool is a pretty cultured city tbh

>>7112456
>Balliol
>Wanting to reside anywhere other than All Souls

>>7114559
You can't really choose a college based on your course. Just go up and see what colleges you like the feel of.
Also, some are harder than others to get in to in general.

>>7114496

>this message has been brought to you by the Mexico Board of Tourism

"/lit/" is just a spook of the mind that enslaves you into thinking there is some kind of standard you should be living up to if you want to browse this board.

>>7114868

Are you going to post any locations or are you just going to be a faggot?

>>7112292
>Helmholtz rose from his pneumatic chair. “I should like a thoroughly bad climate,”
he answered. “I believe one would write better if the climate were bad.
If there were a lot of wind and storms, for example .”
The Controller nodded his approbation. “I like your spirit, Mr. Watson. I like it
very much indeed. As much as I officially disapprove of it.” He smiled. “What
about the Falkland Islands?”
“Yes, I think that will do,” Helmholtz answered. “And now, if you don’t mind,
I’ll go and see how poor Bernard’s getting on.”

>>7114161
I'm not from America, I don't listen to npr, I've never visited bourbon street and I don't know what you're talking about.

Uh uh Appalachia.

in the gutter/library

>>7112738
is that sam hyde

>>7114082
Not actually a contradiction there, but okay sport.

Manhattan is boss if you could afford it. If you can't afford it then it sucks, but it's a great place for inspiration and networking with interested people. If I forgot some great ones then spit 'em out.

My diary, tbh

My Twisted World tbh

here tbh

>>7115200
>welcome to the rice fields, mothafucka
I bet the people in that pretty village are punishingly provincial and would accuse you of causing a miscarriage or something if you tried to move there.

>>7115010
>>>/r/books

>>7115206

Better than living in mid-Atlantic America where people fuck each other in the ass for sport and think white people doing anything but keeping eyes-front and saying "sorry" at 5-second intervals is racism.

>>7115200
>tfw you see this village so often you start to recognize individual houses and fields

>>7115232
what is wrong with /r/books?

>>7115380
kek

>>7115200
except japs have never produced a single noteworthy piece of literature ever

>>7112653
I said Vermont, not Key West

>>7115383
Kek. Japanese literature was brilliant while our ancestors were still busy hitting each other with sticks. Hell, Murasaki Shikibu invented the novel as we know it.

>>7114553
underrated

>>7115402
weeaboo please go.

Alaska, or anywhere countryside where the snow would ensure that most of your time is spent inside and people can't easily annoy you.

Basically, if you get mail every day instead of once a week/month, it's a shit place to be a writer.

>>7115562
fun fact: no income tax

>>7112496
>Anywhere in Japan
How is modern metropolitan (Tokyo) Japan /lit/?

>>7115988
most of the greatest works of Japanese literature take place in a "modern" tokyo

pic related
south or south-west Japan
Geneva
Buenos Aires
Tierra del Fuego
Alsace, France


>>7114553
Absolutely. The North of Italy is beautiful and I was lucky enough I didn't met any Italian 'chavs'. It's the best place to feel like you're in a Thomas Hardy novel (except for actual Britain maybe).

I'm jelly as fuck.

>>7115988
How is it not? Japan appeals to Americans because of the alien but elegant culture, and that's crammed right down your throat in a weird, less elegant way in Tokyo. That's the stuff of brutal fiction right there, not to mention a practically mandatory life experience if you're into Japanese inspired aesthetics.

>>7116066
Well, do these great works of Japanese literature take place in say, the last 20 years of Modern Tokyo? With its million-people crowds, the anime culture, modern marketing and its neon, the awful work culture and utter social alienation of gaijins?

You're probably thinking of Meiji Tokyo and the shitty post war Tokyo, not current times.

Rural New England a best.

Deutschland.

>>7114723
Hampstead

>>7118017
This. As long as you can stay from the dope, it's the best place to live. Unless heroin is your writing drug, in which case this is still a good option.

>>7118017
>not rural england

>>7114027
underrated post

>>7114774
>cappadocia
>barely in ancient cappadocia
Why would do this, turk?

>>7114133
>how to not have fun, by /pol/

>>7112292
A library

>>7118017
>love lovecraft and poe, especially deep woods new england stories
>never been

life is suffering

Probably here where most of you will end up.

Based on most comments it's either /r9k/ or /pol/.

>>7118484
poor jews

>>7118499
>jews
>poor
:^)

>>7114553
tfw i'm going to study in Torino

Who /Scuola Internazionale di Comics/ Here?

>>7115351
You might have shitty friends or be way too sensitive to what normies say to fit in.

>>7118830
>good friends

>>7118313
>rural england
>there's a town every 100 feet

>>7116075
>>7114553
Northern Italy is GOAT

>tfw living in Buenos Aires
>tfw no lit friends

>>7116075
>tfw living in Buenos Aires but no lit friends

Venice Beach, East LA, Downtown LA, Hollywood

>>7112292

ur mom