/lit/ - Literature

>>16616076

Kindle has a lot of advantages for me.
- Portability
- Notes/highlights. They are easy to make and easy to keep track of since they sync to the web.
- Cost. Most books are significantly less expensive in kindle version.
- $ to author. Yes, despite lower cost, the authors tend to get paid more for the sale of a kindle edition.
- read in dark without a light that keeps wife awake.
- automatically/instantly get magazine subs, blogs, and any book I want on demand.
- Another small benefit I've noticed is for people with allergies, particularly when reading old, out-of-print books that have collected dust.


I still have an overstacked bookshelf that I pull from from time to time, I get a few lit journals in the mail in print, and I always prioritize journals that PRINT over online for my submissions.

But Kindle is just so handy-dandy.

>>16407827

Take a seat, my friend.

>>8783796
>Is there anywhere I can find a paperback edition of Knausgaard that doesn't look like this shit?


Whew, lads. If you think the cover looks like shit, wait until you open it.

>>8658796
It may be more of a legal issue for the publisher because the copyright to My Little Pony characters belongs to Hasbro.

>>8568187
She came upon her billion(s) differently from the way most others do, and in a way that was incredibly liquid.

A typical billionaire built a functioning business, and it he somehow ended up with a spare billion, he would invest it in his own business to expand it (and grow the billion into many more) or invest it in another business. Once you get to a billion, you tend to also know how to manage a billion.

Rowling, however wrote a few books and became a billionaire through that and licencing a movie, etc. She, on her own, has no idea what to do with a billion dollars.

And unlike the other billionaire whose money is all tied up in equity and non-cash equivalents (buildings, etc) such that he can't easily cash out without losing a lot the control that allows those assets to be worth billions, Rowling's money is essentially all in cash or cash equivalents. She quiet literally can write a check for practically any amount.

>>8223280

That is a very difficult way to get published and widely read. There is no easy way, but some ways are particularly difficult.

My recommendation would be to build a ladder. It's much easier to get a good short story published in a C-level journal.

Once you've done that, you can continue to hone your craft and get published in better journals. You can also enter contests if you have the cash (I'm agnostic on this one).

When you have been published in about ten journals, including a few B-list journal and, if you're lucky enough (I'm convinced it's luck) an A-list journal, you will find getting an agent and publisher relatively much easier (though still difficult).

And you may find you're first book is already done - a collection of your published works.

Along the way, you ought to have collected a few good editors and a few good readers. This is fairly important.

Alternatively, you may be a bad writer. If you post the first few paragraphs here, we will probably be able to tell instantly and advise you as such.

>>8146453
All of the guys badmouthing her pussy are either semi-virgins or closet queers who only watch porn and have not been with too many women.

>>7947752
>frog people.

Calling Frogposters 'frog people.'

>>7936021
>defends the world leader in academic fraud, leading exporter of cheating college students who can't get anything published in any respected western journal due to rampant cheating
>post fake photo
>real photos all obscured by life-ending smog

>>7933124
>Italics are for internal dialogue, period.

No, try again, Senpai.

Italics are a common and obvious crutch for poorly read and otherwise stupid writers with weak prose.

Other similar crutches are bold font and em dashes outside of dialogue.

>>7926783
>thinking the nickname had to do with the *eating* of corn.

>>7924250
>>>7919571
>Not to be an asshole but you really dont need to go to another country to do that, just stop being a dipshit.

Some people do.

>>7925882

Unless you are BR Myers, why don't you make the point yourself instead of giving us a link?

>>7925891
I grew up in the South. Faulkner washes away the authentic, gothic disfigurement in the culture that O'Conner embraces.

>>7925563

It is a thoroughly enjoyable book. Just read it with no expectations. If the first fifty pages don't hook you, put it down.

We can spend all day rebutting critics who do not appreciate the romantic style it is written in.

But don't let anyone make you feel stupid for liking it; this world is full of phony intellects like Thomas Mallon.

>>7925521

This isn't possible as 'America' is not as localized as Ireland. You're better off asking who is the Southern James Joyce (Flannery) or the western James Joyce (Annie Proulx) or the mid-Atlantic James Joyce (John Cheever) or the California James Joyce (do they read out there?)

>>7921305
>'ve friends who've started successful niche publications, and I am a consultant for a successful online magazine that is generating a pretty serious amount of ad revenue (after losing their shirts for decades in print).

Sorry, got distracted, did not intend to leave it like that sounding so pretentious. Let me cut that down a little and say that 'from these folks I noticed they had....one of three things:'

>>7916977
>present tense first person
>narrator is fifteen
>narrator is girl

The worse has no limit, but if it did....

>>7921040

So just what makes you think you're ready to run your own publication?

I've friends who've started successful niche publications, and I am a consultant for a successful online magazine that is generating a pretty serious amount of ad revenue (after losing their shirts for decades in print).

What exactly do you bring to the table? It either better be one of three things:
- A lot of money.
- Exceptional writing talent.
- A broad network of people you can turn to for above.

Otherwise, 'lurk more' and go to work for another established, existing publication.

>>7885356
>Came to see GOAT Atlas Shrugged
>Disappoint.

>>7874968
>Yeah, that line kind of shocked me too. What happened to nerdfighters embracing everyone regardless of appearance?


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Sorry, faggot, but human nature was around long before Tumblr and will be around long after.

>>7869184
>Iq84

That's the one. I've only read his short works.

>>7868506
>>Girls
>>Reading Murakami
>I've never met a single one.

One of my Ex's, who is now getting a PhD in chemistry and is half viet, half german (biggest tits you've ever seen on a slant, with a real mean-streak), owned several of his books and was herself a voracious reader. She was particularly fond of that book of his with numbers in the name (???)

>>7868397
>Fuck off tripfagging faggot, this isn't your fucking blog

Were you absent when it was declared? It actually is my fucking blog now and I've named it "Anon Actually Enjoyed Slurping his Uncle's Semen."

>>7868484
>>7868494

Roger Plath, sports novelist. Obv.

>>7868045

They are all dumb in girlish ways, but there are those out there that are legit smart and know how to leverage that. Clever.

Ayn Rand.
Alice McDermott
Flannery O'Conner
Etc.

>>7867923
The argument is that men get their intelligence from their mother's genetics. You dismissed my science reference with an N=1. Can you understand why I'm not convinced?