/lit/ - Literature

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>implying DFW's more racially sensitive than those "racists" he talks about here, just because he embedded a few highly incongruous chapters focusing on blacks in a book that otherwise isn't really about them

also
>Negro dialect
hey, Franzen: the 1960s called, they want their racial epithets back

>reading The Silmarillion on the bus with the cover raised up as though it were a casual read
>not pressed into your lap under the notebook where youre jotting down notes while singing Elbereth in a perfect baritone for the pleasure of other bus passengers