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we all know that the future of literature is going to look a lot more like 8chan than the New Yorker, which is why I started a magazine for writers, cartoonists, scholars and shitposters called Dagger. It comes out in both digital and a full-color, glossy print edition. you can check it out at www.daggermag.com and please please please hit me up with pitches or submissions.
I've been a professional writer for about five years now, and lemme tell you, the publishing industry is looking bleak. It's totally screwed down by monied interests and it's shrinking, quarter by quarter, into total irrelevance. I've been told, while interviewing for staff jobs, that my duty will be to "help elect democrats." which is the opposite of what this is all supposed to be about. dagger has a small audience but it isn't co-opted, and our first print issue has work from William Burroughs, an interview with John Carpenter and artwork by some excellent pro illustrators -- including Billy Norrby, who did the cover. lemme know what you think
www.daggermag.com
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▶ No.13526 >>13527 >>13660
Look who's first on Amazon in France.
https://www.amazon.fr/gp/bestsellers/books/405946/ref=zg_bs_nav_b_3_405926
Last book from leftist intellectual Bernard Henri Levy sold less than 1000 copies.
The 2 last books from right-wing intellectual Eric Zemmour sold around 400 000 PHYSICAL copies each.
When Zemmour write something french people buy 5000 copies a DAY.
Lefties do not read. Most of them have never open the 50 pages long Communists Manifesto.
(Again, sorry for my terrible english)
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▶ No.13527 >>13528
>>13526
I think a lot of the reading public today basically buy books (or newspaper subscriptions) as a badge of consumer identity. That's why the Washington Post presents itself the way it does -- paying for a Post subscription is basically a post-religious indulgence; it makes those who buy it feel morally justified and 'informed,' where 'informed' is a condition of absolution. If you want to know why modern lit is so light on actual ideas, look no further than this phenomenon… ideas are unimportant, since the important part of the modern literary transaction occurs as soon as you press "checkout" on Amazon.
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▶ No.13528
>>13527
Well they don't press checkout anyway for lefty stuff.
Most french leftist newspapers are state subsided.
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▶ No.13529 >>13533
>>13525 (OP)
>send us a crypto donation so we can begin investing heavily in the world's first totally crowdfunded hydrogen bomb
I love you.
Meanwhile, a few paragraphs are missing a full stop:
>but that's it
>who knows what she fucking did
Just sayin'.
Have you hit the newsstands yet? Direct order only?
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▶ No.13530
I like the style. Might toss some shekels your way.
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▶ No.13531
Is this the right an proper /lit/ mag, and rag, we've all been waiting for?
We shall see.
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▶ No.13533
>>13529
this is a sticky point with basically everyone but one of the things I'm doing with Dagger is highlighting writing that's very much in the internet style… which is to say, we leave out periods and drop caps in order to effect a more conversational tone that mimics shitposting. I think that, on the internet, all writing is basically shitposting anyway -- it just happens in different venues with different expectations. If literature is going to remain relevant in this venue it needs to start making conscious use of the way people actually communicate on it. in other words, pic related
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▶ No.13534
oh and on the newstand thing: we're available at a few comic and bookshops in New York, and we do open studios in Brooklyn pretty regularly if you want to pick up a copy directly from our office. Other than that it's online orders only for now.
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▶ No.13535
This is exactly the shit I crave. Thank you OP.
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▶ No.13544 >>13545
Sword of Trump was decent. It's obviously written by someone more experienced in professional writing than funposting. A shitposter wouldn't have thought of gambling everything on the big reveal at the beginning of act 4, but would have thrown the kitchen sink at the part after. Someone with experience hid the reveal, but didn't come up with anything special after.
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▶ No.13545
>>13544
I wrote Sword of Trump, but I totally agree with this assessment of it. Originally I wanted to do a five-page long poem made of nothing but racial slurs but my publisher talked me out of it.
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▶ No.13595 >>13649
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▶ No.13649 >>13657
>>13595
What the fuck are you talking about?
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▶ No.13655
This is the kind of magazine I want to read and write for. I'll be submitting my amatuer shit at some point. Thanks anon.
Though if it's alright with you I'll submit with proper grammar and punctuation, and you can edit it as you see fit. Pic related.
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▶ No.13657 >>13660 >>13668
>>13649
Hint: take a peek at the guidelines and FAQ, and try some page refreshing.
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▶ No.13660 >>13668
>>13526
That evidence should have the opposite conclusion. Do you pay for porn?
>>13657
If you mean the extra thoughts page being gone, this magazine does sound like something the BO said he would like.
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▶ No.13668
>>13660
>>13657
Why would I care?
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