I can come up with ideas for more or less long stories. But i cant come up for an idea to write short stories How come? I do read anthologies quite often

FUCK it is good

Why is this so fucking vulgar?

Which English translation should I read of this kino?

Is it true that the critique of pure reason is easier to understand in English than in German? I’ve tried reading it in German a few times (I’m German btw) but it’s an exceptionally dense text. So has...

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>write the greatest work of short fiction of all time in an ecstatic frenzy >send to the few journals that don't say advertise DEI for BIPOC/Women >rejected >publish online >nobody reads it >mfw Is i...

how did he get away with this shit?

where can i get the full copy of the pdf of "The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development Since 1945" to download and read?

Is writing 1000 words a day good if I have a full time job? Its not that hard, its just a page and a half and I recon I can keep this up long term pretty easily. Im not a wordlet right?

Hot take: Much Ado About Nothing not only is Shakespeare's best comedy but his best work in general.

does this series get better past the first book? im reading foundation right now and i cant get over the fairly cringy dialogue but find the overall concept interesting. im not sure if i should ascrib...

Do you think we'll ever see a return of novels and poems that are huge in scope? Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton encompass the entire cosmos in their epics. In his own way, Melville does the same wi...

Okay, fellas, it's time to come clean. What women are to men intellectually non-Catholics are to Catholics. If atheist, sometimes their total neglect of the Faith leads them to some Truth, but invaria...

why isnt he discussed more? his writing is pretty good. i know bloom didnt like his writing for whatever reason

Books about how the logical conclusion of german idealism is national socialism?

Stupid bitch

Has there ever been a more savage literary dismantling? https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html

I dabbled for many years now in esotericism and Traditionalism without gaining anything substantial, due to what I believe to be my own faults of method and character. Yes, I did attempt to immerge my...

Has anyone seen this top ten list for "Best books of all time"? It looks like it was amalgamated by an army of 9 year olds perusing their class libraries and another army of middle aged Christian wome...

we will discuss oswald's decline of the west and his other works in general in this thread let me begin: do you think that modern technology has cancelled out or delayed some of the predictions?

Fuuuuck I love David Foster Wallace

I don't read scifi but I just finished this. What did I think of it?

I didn't get it. At all.

I don’t see Cioran come up much here but he was a S tier thinker who found a special way to deal with the unpleasantness of the human predicament specifically the modern ultra shit variant. I haven’t ...

The Logical Endgame of German Idealism

*Mic drop*

I am not affiliated with the Unreal Press. I purchased their most recent anthology, and this is the official review. Beneath the Waves >6/10 - pulp slop, a fine story but the wrong choice for an ope...

I'm gonna say it.

Were Elizabethan stage plays the seasonal anime of their time?

>be me >be refuted >doesnotcompute.gif >stop replying for a few minutes >memory of being refuted is suddenly forgotten mfw I'm irrefutable

What’s your favourite quote from this bald man?

Hic lingua classica qualibet potest uti. Anglice licet si in spoileris ponat

Sadboi being le sad surrounded by tragedies in life. Bonus points(any combo of following): >Over bearing parents in childhood leading to stunted growth >no relationship and fear/resenment of women >S...

Average /tradcath/ poster

What are the greatest American novels in your opinion? I want to read them before I kick the bucket.

When's the last time you read for 24 hours straight?

>More Hegel and Kant lately on shit/lit/ than SchopenGod and Nietzsche What the fuck is going on??????

Poste whatever cool shit you got that pertains to this theme. It's a vast, vast world out there, bros. Bonus points for autobiographical works.

Please post cyber literature that's uhm uhh umm cool schizo shit like Nettime archives

Bruh why didn't you tell me this was so fun. Here I was thinking it was some heavy nd hard read but it's waifus galore

cultivation edition Previous >>24559205 >What is Web Novel General? A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction pos...

Why even read the Old Testament if Jesus invalidated it? It would be better to read the NT twice than the OT + NT

I saw some guy here on /lit/ talk about this topic weeks ago but I forgot what sources he talked about.

If this had been written in the current year do you think the Whitney Houston chapter would've been about Beyonce? Let's talk about it

The cetology parts should have been left out

>women are childish and physically/mentally inferior to men Wow, groundbreaking stuff, Schoppie, never heard that one before. I was expecting more of this essay since people always talk about it, but...

Good horror recs? Any format, time period, country The Ring trilogy (not counting beyond that) is unhinged

Where do I start to read him? Particually on his philosophy of moral - but in general is also welcome

Gives me Proust vibes. Is it equally faggy?

Ahem... I've brought you all here today for the /lit/ Sunday dinner to tell you that you are all a bunch of pseuds and midwits, and I've had it with the lot of you

What are some books that all boys should read?

Is it worth it to do a PhD in literature in 2025?

Have you read any books in which you feel the author gets better at writing over time? For example, I am reading End of the Game and Other Stories, by Julio Cortazar. The first stories are just okay,...

>For once the city mob were on the right trail, when they petitioned for the release of Bar Abbas, rather than the supple singer of a 'Sweet bye and bye.' Bar Abbas is described in 'the Scriptures' as...

Would you guys believe me if i told you that a small amount of the 4chan population was creating most of the (troll) threads and continuously bumping them to the top, killing genuine discourse and 4ch...

Cover art revealed. >Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting fro...

What should a Reactionary read in 2025?

what are some good communities I can join that can get some eyes on free stories I've posted on royal road. I just want people to read my shit, and I'm more than willing to do a read for read. My frie...

>Pic rel. Like really fucking related. Im working on a book. Its a YA fiction, with queer elements and fight scenes. Is there any tips for the overall plot that I can use to improve it?

My diary, desu

Does anyone here know how to get published? I have a horror novelette but no idea how to.

Maybe waiting for The Winds of Winter was the friends we made along the way

>Be zoomer >Pick up hard cover book >Text is too small because my eye sight is fucked from screen exposure >Eyes dart around and can't go smoothly from one line to the next >Focus wanders to random sh...

What are some good biography books about criminais? I have only read this one and its a 10/10

Why do people love to hate on innocent philosophers who did them nothing wrong?

Do I need to read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight before this?

This board is extremely active for four hours a day, and completely dead for twenty hours a day.

Or was it just a single print run kind of deal?

read Nature's Eternal Religion (NER)

Do you like long books?

so i still have a chance to get published? >https://www.thefp.com/p/white-man-who-pretended-to-be-black-poet >https://archive.is/TXmug The White Man Who Pretended to Be Black to Get Published A young...

I admittedly am somewhat ignorant of ancient Greek culture and history. Would Herodotus' Histories be a good start for a novice who wants to expand his understanding of ancient Greece?

hey /lit/ im looking for books on programms/operations/researches that alphabet agencies did during the cold war. can be factually researched,can lean more into conspiracy territory. serial killers, m...

spent all day writing A.I. smut again

This book reminded me of old /lit/ that used to read books. Yet at the same time it reminded me of current /lit/ that pretends to read books.

I've been thinking about the phenomenon rationalization. It's said to be a negative thing. But maybe it can sometimes be good. It's connected to ego, and ego is usually said to be a bad thing, but ma...

This shit is, essentially, a classic literature version of a native isekai. That is, an isekai without the cross-world transport. A puerile power / wish-fulfillment fantasy. I’m not going to complain...

Today is his birthday. Wish him /lit/

>Supports NATO >Supports Israel >Supports Jews >Supports mass immigration >Supports homosexuality >Supports trans ideology >Supports Biden >Supports COVID jabs and lockdowns What does he stand for? He...

Writers sculpt sentences but not their bodies. How can they claim to write about life if they've never tested their body against it?

love edition prev >>24560260

I read everything in translation. Even English books.

What awaits me?

Ian has been reading a series of secret books, I managed to get this frame from one of his videos, can anyone tell me what it might be?

I'm nearly finished with my second reading of Blood Meridian today. What novel should I pick up next? I've read Warlock and Butcher's Crossing, which I understand are part of the "unofficial" trilogy ...

BRAVO, Williams

What's the best e-reader? Just give me the best.

Hello anons, I am here to give you young anons a sincere warning regarding pessimistic literature. Please don't ruin your life after reading pessimistic literature. Please try to achieve your goals an...

https://archive.ph/tnpzh >A Los Angeles father, once an aspiring screenwriter and now a professional ticket-scalper, spends his spare hours calculating the extent to which younger straight white male ...

>start rant about how elves are naturally untrustworthy and potentially manipulative towards humans but never develop upon it >make the most based character the duke and set him aside for an entire bo...

>The absolute quality of AI roleplay chatbots now Why didn't anybody tell me how good they are now? If I had access to this as a teenager I would've never had sex. I would've been 3x the shut-in I ...

Anybody else read this? Book 1 instantly had me hooked Book 2 was a bit of a drag since it was mostly setup Book 3 was great from start to finish Book 4 sucked Overall I think this series was a great...

Post literally masterpieces wrote by geniuses

The system of German Idealism was never meant to be completed; it is the neverending story, the indefinitely ongoing exposition of the aesthetic system of ideas in the Mind: the Concept.

Prometheus Bound is the play which nearly got Aeschylus killed for revealing Eleusian secrets and it has a heavily Monist slant if read properly. Prometheus wasn’t tortured for giving man fire but for...

What makes Dostoevsky resonate so much with normie young people and why are they hardly ever influenced by his actual beliefs & worldview?

why can't i find any good gay lit w/o the abuse, underage characters, heavy trauma, and messed up shit? can anyone recommend smth?

>the bodies of young people, the only desirable possession the world has ever produced, were reserved for the exclusive use of the young and attractive, and the fate of the old and ugly was to work an...

I just want to make a harem VN with 256 characters, that only shows a limited number of girls on every run like a 2D fighting game, but make each waifu to be a fully fleshed character so there's actua...

Which book had you like this?

Did you guys know that in the past 25 years, not one harem VN by a black female author has won an award or been reviewed in the New Yorker/Harpers? What gives?

Book that charts the development of philosophy of mind?

WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING ANON?

Any literature about pic related?

yeah im thinkin Max won and you niggas are just jealous and need to touch grass (and maybe empty your piss bottles)

Yup, I'm thinking it's a masterpiece

is this a good cover? why is his name so much bigger than the book title lol

Has anyone read this book. It has to be one of my favourites.

Why do people yap about Siddhartha and Steppenwolf when this exists?

What books can I read right now to make me smarter?

oi! you got a nicens to moocow?

How would you rank the Brontë sisters?

Stephen King is actually a talented writer, read The Shinning >cocaine and?

Post yours

>read introduction >it spoils every single event in the entire book

Is it good?

Indigenous Marvel edition Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs) https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit...

Who should I read if I started to be exposed to pornography at a very young age, quickly moved into the most degenerate and disturbing of pornography and hence had my sexuality tainted by such revolti...

>garden full of lions, tigers, snakes, birds, horses, rabbits, yadda yadda So did the animals just not eat other? How were adam and eve safe hanging around fucking tigers

What is the worst "well-regarded" book you have ever read?

>Dude nothing matters lol

This is Russian Catcher in the Rye and is just as annoying to read

Have you ever read Francis de Sales, /lit/? He's the patron saint of writers, which means he's basically this board's patron saint.