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Has /lit/ ever produced anything worth reading?
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Most of the books shilled as products from the bowels of /lit/ are written by normie pretenders or genuine retards.

So I would say yes they are worth reading. Not like I have anything better to do.
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My diary desu
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Corndog Zen.
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>>24695844
Katie thread
Irish boomer lady effortpost
Big chungus shitpost
And anything I‘ve said obviously
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i skimmed through the webzine best of and whatever is required to pretend to enjoy that writing just aint in me
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>>24695862
Give me the qrd
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>>24695890
Every single time I hit the "I want to be Katies little baby tampon boy" I fucking lose it.

To answer your question OP, no. This site staves off boredom with anonymous consequence free interactions and new dying culture data points for your brain to assimilate every few minutes. The mind needs boredom to create. People who were raised here are bound to be useless creatively, and if someone already had worthy, respectable publications and were to come here to shitpost on the toilet, they would merely be tourists.
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/lit/ is full of tons of writers and poets who have been published but would never dare namedoxx themselves here.
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>>24695844
My First Book, Brat, The Novelist, The Dance of the Lizard's Tale, The Hungry God, Corndog Zen, The Call of the Crocodile, L'Academie. There are too many to list. All excellent reading.
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>>24695929
Anon wrote a novel based on raising Arizona, it was pretty comfy. He linked free PDFs in a thread and it was well written.
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>>24695844
Elliot Rodger's diary/manifesto is more memorable and reads better than anything from this site
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The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
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>>24696021
And don't forget KK Wing's Beautiful Country, a touching story about an immigrant chicken farmer in Gold Rush era San Francisco.
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I have authored many critically acclaimed shitposts.
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>>24695985
My personal favourite would be Harassment Architecture from Mike Ma, but I've heard interesting things about that Reinspects guy's one, as well as Woolston's work. And there was also that poet/novelist who pretended to be a girl. I'd include Tao Lin, but he's too professional to be included, and he's not a regular user.
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>>24695844
/lit/ as in a collaborative effort? The meme annotated version of Moby dick
/lit/ as in individuals? Nope, we do have a lot of schizos who spam their shit and samefag to try and bait people
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>>24696505
I appreciate the hustle and I like a good schizo thread
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>>24696505
>schizos who spam their shit
Speaking of which...
www.mongoldev.com
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>>24695844
I'm writing a manifesto and I'm hoping people would read it, but I'll likely post it by next year
It's about epistemological negligence and its implications
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>>24695844
There was a best-of compilation of a magazine that was published here called &amp. The writing in the magazine overall was not good on average (used whatever was sent in), but generally each issue had a few stand-out pieces, so those were selected for the best-of and re-edited.
https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/
https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/assets/the_best_of_amp_digital.pdf

To comment on the other books mentioned: Brat by Gabriel Smith is very good, I Pray to the Hungry God is better than Eggplant (same author; has a story Void, in the best-of), the Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra is stupid as hell but interesting for what it is and does have highs (I'm only a little more than halfway through).

There's also one instance of a magazine on /lit/ that vetted and paid for submissions, which was Lit Quarterly. It had five issues, but supposedly after the first three there was an influx of submissions from outside /lit/ and 4chan. It and a bunch of other /lit/ magazines of varying quality are in here:
https://mega.nz/folder/2gsHSSbA#Sl46P4LljGlk9mnpAf3Mlw
There was also a best-of made of the Flash Fiction Anthologies that took place here, but there was never a PDF or table of contents released.
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>>24696505
I hope someone organizes another meme annotation because Moby Dick was unironically good. The perfect blend of shitpost, autism and genuine anon insight.
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>>24695985
>My First Book
>“excellent reading”
on Planet Retard
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I wrote a literary fantasy about a religious cult that spreads and supplants the theocratic remnants of a fallen society. Deals with themes of fate, zealotry, loyalty, love, and group madness.

Well reviewed by both professional and amateur critics.
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Anyone actually read call of the crocodile or any of the other Gardner books
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>>24696434
If you include that one, you have to include Bronze Age Mindset. We know that fag lurks here.
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>>24695844
I wrote a kids book called Lost Doll's Land but never posted it here. Showed some anons on /r9k/ and they liked it if that means anything.
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>>24697759
the Kabbalah one was amazing
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>>24695844
The Legacy of Totalitarianism is one thing that can be attributed to "/lit/"
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The Coronameron is pretty fun. A few genuinely good poems in there. Oob oob obby oob.
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>>24695844
every board has produced at least ONCE a meme that became global on 4chan
...except for /lit/
Truly, the least creative and imaginative board on the site....
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>>24698261
We're kind of responsible for Big Chungus.
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>>24697759
No, they're trash and at least one of them is straight AI shit

>>24695844
Baby Alex
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>>24698261
It’s rather embarrassing that /pw/ is the center of language and rhetoric innovation.
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>>24696021
Shame the first chapter is great, the rest don't live up to it.
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>>24696255
same. To my knowledge, I have 4 copy pastas across 4chan that gets posted regularly
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>>24698261
The web novel and genrefic autists take up too much oxygen. They should stay in /tg/ where they belong but no…..they have to come here and take their giant bellowing breaths.
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>>24698354
/wg/ is never going to produce anything memetic.
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>>24698454
That goes without saying. I don’t think writing generals should exist. Writing is a solitary activity, involving your inner world. There is nothing another person can provide in that endeavor unless it is in the form of a book. And even then you must be selective.
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>>24695844
Not besides schizo posts and book
images and lists.
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>>24698463
Truke
/wg/ and /wng/ fags eternally BTFO
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For me, it's The Dance of the Lizard's Tale
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>>24698017
Okay, what are the good Google Doc collabs? What sets them apart from one another? I know Tundra spawned sequels but heard they sucked, and there have to be about a dozen collabs like that since. I've been reading Tundra and it's hard to think there's much of a point to reading more like it if every subsequent attempt is a similar flavour of shitpost with a few genuinely good passages scattered inside. The original Tundra, Hypersphere, L'anomie, and Coronameron seem to be the big ones. L'anomie is the only one that isn't super long.

Special mention to How I Glued Shut My Copy of Teen Beat Magazine By Schlicking Hot Juice All Over Jonathan Taylor Thomas's Full Page Spread.
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>>24696434
unblock me on twitter Mike
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>>24699397
What's his twitter?
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>>24695844
Last Binge Ever by Londonfrog
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>>24699620
Feel like I haven't seen his posts in years, whatever happened to him?
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>>24695844
I wrote a buck breaking scene in the style of Blood Meridian and at least 2 people posted it on /tv/ that I stumbled upon, felt proud.
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>>24699620
>>24699629
Still posts. Saw him in June.
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24500021
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>>24700252
What a brutal post
Truly the voice of this generation
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>>24700263
>>24700252
Grim
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No one remembers Zulu…
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>>24699615
@mozartpalestine
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>>24700294
I just hope Zimwe will make it
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>>24695844
I made something that a few anons enjoyed and as far as I know, they didn't know it was from a /lit/ anon. Inwon't say which book cuz I don't want people to associate my name to 4chan but there ya go.
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https://lit.trainroll.xyz/wiki/Collaborative_Works

I was in the middle of writing an article on the wiki about these sorts of projects before the admin locked the whole thing down. Most items don't have a good description, but I think my lists of projects are close to complete.
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>>24700679
>I don't want people to associate my name to 4chan
don't be a coward
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>>24700697
Bonus:
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra is in the Bavarian State Library.
Hypersphere is in the Museum of Modern Art (I swear I heard this one made it into the Library of Congress, but MoMA is cooler).
Edward Burtynsky (photographer of pic rel, Burgerpunk fame) has two print copies of the &amp best-of.
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>>24697137
that sound kinda cool, where can I read it?
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>>24697005
>Lit Quarterly
i have the first three copies and one of my shorts is in the second
are they available online? don't remember if they were print only or not
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>>24700864
>they available online? don't remember if they were print only or not
oh i should have clicked the mega kekeke
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>>24700711
Burgerpunkposting was really a nice time, I'm sad it didn't go on longer than it did. It's a neat idea, really.
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>>24700757
Here you go, my fine fellow.
Shoot me a message on Goodreads if you'd like a free e-copy should you not want to give me shekels.

Also available on Barnes and Noble, Target online, Indigo, and other booksellers if you don't like Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Mathew-Kellerman-ebook/dp/B0CJ5S9VWV/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2PHCXT4JURO5W&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.47r96R5FH9RZRWfInBm7OvLFFokWFpEOQ5Xj-45NlhPGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.TabOGKwsX5Tioi1x01BELqHlBXBSGqBNE6Ob00XQB8A&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+awakening+mathew+kellerman&qid=1757106143&sprefix=%2Caps%2C238&sr=8-1



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