/lit/ - Literature

Any fans of Vox Day here? His Castalia Library leatherbound classics series is vertically integrating, gonna build its own bindery.

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/08/building-bindery.html

Supporters of the crowdfund can order copies of the first books set to be made on the new presses, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, which will be specially branded Castalia Bindery. The Library quality books are set at $250 each.

https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-iliad-library-edition/

https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-odyssey-library-edition/

Better heeled classics aficionados and supporters of an alt-old tech reskilling can order the Libraria Castalia versions of each edition, in goatskin, for $1,000 apiece.

https://arkhavencomics.com/product/iliad-libraria-edition/

https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-odyssey-libraria-edition/

The goal is to sell 500 copies of each book by the end of August to fund the Castalia Bindery. But there is no hard limit on the books until the campaign concludes August 31, so there are a few weeks to consider and save up before diving in.

Pic includes some of Castalia Library’s previous editions. The new bindery will allow an even higher standard for future volumes.

I want to emulate Mishima's death, but I live in the states, and am a nobody. What would the American version of his death be?

Also Mishima general discussion thread.

i guess this is all mostly about "good feeling" but im trying to write a story and naturally somehow with the ending defined like the graph, i naturally expects anything before the "end"

to be canon and refers to the end of sorts, but i could quite find any logical idea about it means i cant evn choose a single fucking scene to write that will allow the end to be an acconplishment of sorts…

how do i deal with this?

i keep writing everyday but this thing remain unresolved like i will get somewhere and retcon things which feels troublesome

help i need a model to help connect these plot points to the ending so it feels good to do

Asking for a friend…

what do you think was Yeats' political orientation? I've been getting into his poetry.

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What does your Coronavirus reading list consist of?

I'm finally going to finish For Whom the Bell Tolls, Difficult Loves by Calvino, a couple of books by Denis Johnson, Speak Memory by Nabokov, I might reread House of Leaves if I'm really bored.

Hey /lit/

I'm an erotica author who write a lot of taboo stuff, and as I've been seeing success in the erotica market in the past few months I'd like to consider branching out. The stuff I've been putting out there is pretty fringe but within Amazon guidelines; I know that some authors who write stuff like, say, incest, will post their stories to Smashwords, which is more forgiving of extreme content. As of right now it's not really a problem because my stuff is pretty in line with the two big retailershowever, in the past I've written more than a few stories involving underage characters, and I'm sure there's a market for this content somewhere. Nobody mainstream will accept and publish such works however, and when I search for information about the issue Google shames me with a big warninglike, Googling the phrase 'underage characters in erotic fiction' comes up with a big fat whining warning about depictions of child abuse being illegal, yes, of course, obviously. But this is FICTION.

Naturally in the process of this Googling I came across United States v. Fletcher, a 2007 court case where the defendant entered a guilty plea in a ridiculous obscenity charge brought against her for maintaining a website of fictional stories, text only, no pictures. The contents of the stories sound like they were very shocking (more shocking than my stuff, small consolation to me) but obviously that's no excuse for the charges brought against her. She was an old lady at the time, too, which makes it very sad and absurd. It sounds like this prosecutor wanted to make an example and from what I can see it worked because everywhere I look in fiction communities everywhere if you even have the audacity to write about a character who's, I don't know, seventeen having a sexual experience that's depicted as erotic, you'll be banned on site and your work thrown off whatever website you put it on. Never mind that if you write the same scene at a 7th grade reading level and call it YA an agent will snap it up in a heartbeat. Never mind that de Sade's Justine was twelve at the start of the novel and so was Dolores Haze. Never mind THAT IT'S FICTION. FICTION FICTION FICTION. It makes me want to scream.

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I'm going to read the Trivium, what should I add/remove?

I'm spanish so most grammar suggestions I got didn't work, should I just read a general spanish grammar handbook?

Why do Buddhists follow the teachings of a poo?

Is this a good reading list?

/&amp/ Postpostmodern Edition: The More Vulnerable Years, ca. 2021; or,

You, yes (You). You are smart and creative. This is your board. Contribute to &amp Magazine;

Fire up MS Paint '95 and make a rage comic if you have to. Steal your daughter's diary if you have to. Photocopy your ass if you have to;

There is a Gun to Your Head Edition; or,

Here's some resources for creating things:

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https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/

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I'm interested in reading odd non-Tolkien fantasy, which is preferably from early 20th, late 19th century sources, what can you guys recommend?

Thus farm I have been reading a decent amount of Lovecraft, and Conan The Barbarian. I just started getting into reading for pleasure I like Lovecrafts narration and general writing style, but I do not like the slowness of the story. My favorite one so far is The Shadow over Innsmouth, since the fish frog men lore was cool, the bit of action, and the twist at the end. When it comes to Conan I like the ease of reading. It so fluid that you automatically keep reading, even if you are not really enjoying it, due to Conan being a boring character. My favorite story is The Tower of the Elephant, since it has black magic, an interesting story, and a fast pace. I just finished Testaments of Athammaus by Clark Ashton Smith, and found it to be weak, but I will give CAS a couple more tries.