Favorite alt lit writer? And now that the movement is pretty much officially over, with Tao moving on, who's the official canon? Who are the heirs? (I would tentatively say New York Tryant.)
Favorite alt lit writer? And now that the movement is pretty much officially over, with Tao moving on...
Christopher Perry
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Nathan Howard
for the love of god, delete this absolute shit-thread
Dominic Cook
Stop being such a fucking snob. Being cultured is about finding niche things that excite your tastes more than anything else, not by beating yourself into appreciating everything on a top 100 list. I happen to like alt lit. I also like a lot of other things.
Julian Diaz
Get the fuck out Tao
Juan Gonzalez
I think you'd like my diary desu if you consider old white males writing in traditional forms to provide a comfy aesthetic using plot, prose (to the best of my ability), and universal themes to try and give my own personal insight and perspective that will be relatively easy for my future audience to digest and understand what it's like living in our modern era to be alt lit.
Landon Clark
Wtf is NY Tryant?
Michael Parker
Pretty good contemporary small press. If you like James Purdy, O'Hara, that kind of thing, or and of the Lish people, you'll like it.
Leo Young
move your thread where it deserves to stay
Jordan Hughes
tao had one good book and everything else he wrote was objectively dogshit
Sebastian Sanders
any "movement" represented by tao lin must be absolute garbage.
Matthew Lewis
Why are you guys lashing out? Do you really need to feel better than something that badly.
Grayson Rogers
I think they are annoyed/angered by the state of literature.
Benjamin Murphy
It's true. I am. Because of the rise of alt lit.
Ayden Garcia
Alt lit is a fringe movement.
You should be worried about midcult, what's winning the pulitzers, not a weird side-show.
Mason Rivera
hey Tao, do you have nothing else to do than browsing Veeky Forums today? I thought you were quite a star
Christian Bell
I bet you look like this op
Robert Bennett
I'm not even sure it can be called a movement.
The problem with alt-lit is that it doesn't seem counter culture but instead pushing what's being pushed in midcult even further along. Not to mention what little I have read hasn't been impressive skill-wise.
Thomas Green
But the "further along" is what distinguishes it from midcult. Its schools of thought and webs of influence have a lot of relation to 80s minamalism, which is very much not midcult because it intentionally frusterates a lot of midcult desires, things like the desire for coherence, sentimentality, etc. Just being "relatable" doesn't make it midcult. It's what is done with that relatability.
William Smith
If your 'alt' anything isn't gaining traction even here then you need to rethink what you're doing.
Jayden Ward
What do you mean by Tao moving on?
Grayson Gutierrez
Look into more recent interviews with Tao Lin, particularly surrounding his new book Trip. Tao's been doing a ton of research (and also hallucinogenics) and has sort of transformed himself from an emotionally dissociated person to an embarassingly sincere Terrence McKenna/Doors of Perception type. It will be interesting to see how he applies this to his older material.
Basically, It's pretty clear he's moving away from his old values and new aesthetics are probably going to emerge with that.
ew.com
Check out the excerpt and see how different it is.
Christopher Martin
Can someone post all of op girls nudes plz
Justin Price
Sam Pink is really good.
Brandon Lewis
Such a fucking good album
Hunter Howard
This actually seems pretty interesting, tao is trying to be the hunter s thompson of the autism generation