/lit/ - Literature

>>9514123

>>8051967
>Not recognizing this on lit.

Wew lad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2OdE3UqXGQ

Where do I go from here?

>>7442832
I'm surprised this one isn't memed more often

Has anyone read Church Not Made With Hands by DFW? It's from BIWHM, and it's perhaps the most compelling story in the collection, imo, which can be found via torrent if you're so inclined to join this dicussion and haven't read it (it's very short).

It seems to be about redemption and faith wrapped up in a dense, poetic language and there's a lot of elements of linguistic deconstruction taking place, I'm wondering what critical lens would be best to view this with- something along the lines of Derrida or Heideggar?

So what does /lit/ think about the title story?

No, really.

Is David Foster Wallace worth reading?

I tend to read classics and I've always been sort of embarrassed by the lack of contemporary or near contemporary authors on my bookshelf - at last count the only living authors I had represented were Gunter Grass, Marquez, and Alice Munro.

Recently I purchased Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and I finished Interviews quite quickly even though I found it to be absolutely horrible. The only story I liked was the one with the thirteen year old boy and the diving board, after that the collection went downhill fast. Even the stories where he keeps it relatively simple (such as the interviews themselves) were pretty awful; the narrators go on and on in this really affected dialogue which is nothing like how people speak in real life and also not interesting to read - I can accept unrealistic dialogue if it's at least fun to read. But beyond the boring "trying to shock me" interviews the actual experimental stories were straight up awful, the interview of himself was possibly the cringiest thing I've ever read, the tired expressions like "too much psychological shit to deal with" often had me rolling my eyes. Someone should resurrect DFW and tell him that repetitiveness is not the best way to write an interesting story as I was increasingly frustrated every time certain words and phrases were repeated over and over in some of the stories; "She (that is the depressed person), "his thingie", expressions like this repeated ad nauseam.

Worst of all of course were the instances when stories broke down into complete "pomo" preciousness, such as having a story break off by having its last chapter told in some sort of schema format or the story which was just definitions of words.

Is Infinite Jest worth reading when this was quite honestly just bad?

Here is a quote from a review in the opening page of a physical copy of pic related

"Now we know Mr. Wallace can write short. Let's just hope he writes for a long, long time."

>A long, long time

Would you call this feminist literature?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fr41dJ0xbw

>>6362755
STEM is literally the cuck life, it is the incarnation of /r9k/ mentality of "working hard on a degree that MATTERS" so they'll get a reasonable safe pay check and "she'll see."

OP, have you met any STEMfags? The humanities/liberal ares are the literal opposite of STEM fuccbois.


Or was I not supposed to take the bait?

Some stories are good but holly fuck others, sleepy's

What is Death is not the End about? What am I supposed to get from it? It's just an old poet reclining in the sun.