A few years ago /lit/ used to produce an anarchic and eclectic literature review called & (pronounced 'lamp'). Sadly it ran out of steam as most of the core contributors moved on to other things but it was a really entertaining and at times surprisingly ambitious project. Now a few people have put together a best of compilation. Sadly it eschews the seizure-inducing design language that was the signature of classic & in favour of a sort of take-me-seriously black-tie monochrome. But there's definitely some stuff worth reading in here, and it serves as a capstone on one of the more interesting productions to ever come out of an anonymous imageboard. It's my hope that if this board ever grows big enough it's the sort of thing we might be able to emulate. > Download link > https://mega.nz/file/SsdExRIb#vCbGiROPo3ykstNMeMafJGP5sKW82UzxsXq29wcezG0
I almost submitted to this back in the day but I didn't want "participated in 4chan-related culture" to be on my permanent record in the very slim off chance I make it big
Just re-read 'The only internet crime for which theologians are consulted', one of the more famous pieces in here as I recall. More interesting not for its theological content but as a sort of gentle satire of imageboard culture and the way that academia interfaces with it.
>>1419 I only have ideas, and the ability to translate and design! I like the idea of a dirty zine with unseen/unknow literature sent to unsuspecting readers. I read somewhere that Debord and the Lettrist Internationale used to brodcast their work like that, paper-spamming literary institutions of their times. >>1426 Nice! If you go the open-source way, you might as well use Scribus, which is made for desktop publishing. Beware: it has a distinct 1990s feel, but it is maintained and allows for professional work.
>>1427 I installed Scribus actually but it looked a bit intimidating and I dislike Qt UX. my thinking was that for the first issue i might just try and solicit contributions to fill one side of A4 and I think Inkscape is enough for that. if the project gets some legs then I guess I will learn Scribus :p I didn't know that about the letterist international but it's 'on brand', as they say.
>>1428 Yes, it looks weird, but it's deceiving. As often with old software, once you know what to ignore, it is easy to use. Inkscape is good for everything. Above a certain number of pages, it becomes tedious, that's all. So you are actually considering a magazine too. What kind of material would you want? Because I have some essays, Lit salon has an active discord with several fiction writers (very interesting ones), and I can think of several other sources for texts and pictures. Should we discuss this and make it one project? I mean, ideas can grow stale. Might as well plant them now that we have them.
>>1430 The idea of the magazine would be to publish short fiction, essays, poetry, and criticism from Petrarchan users and adjacent spaces (rsbc, rswc, /wg/, lit salon). It would also be really nice to interpolate this with virtual art and cartoons. We already have some great art being posted on the various threads here and it's a shame for that stuff to get killed by the thread cap. I'm definitely keen to collaborate on this because I want it to be a community project like & was on /lit/ and also because I have fairly limited abilities as a designer :^) Please get in touch on discord @jfawley and let's talk more.
I will do a proper announcement next week but in the meantime if anyone is keen to submit to the mag you can email [email protected]
Hey, I'm the guy who made the best of &. Cool to stumble upon it here, and thanks to whoever posted it. There's also a proper site for it at https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/ with links to whatever the latest version of the PDF is (corrections to typos, etc.), online copies of the entries, and the page for ordering in print (it's as cheap as possible with a $0 margin). Pic related is the whole thing as an illegible gif. >>1431 I'll second the earlier recommendations for Scribus, as I made the best-of with it. There's a steep learning curve to Scribus, and lots of rough edges, but it gives you a lot of tools to work with. I'll shoot you an email (from [email protected]). >>1520 Sweet.