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Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits posted online for all to see are something absolutely other, uniquely themselves compared to canonical short stories, for example, and so it'd probably be best to call it something other than "online lit" since I honestly think very little of it can compare to so-called "literature."
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.
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Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.
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Who's famous anymore? No one. There are these comedians that are famous in a weird way. There are comedians, like Anjelah Johnson and Russell Peters, [who] are unbelievably famous, but in a way they're selling out 1,000-person stadiums.
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Always tell the truth and be true.
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Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.
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We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.
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Lizzing is a combination of laughing and whizzing.
