/lit/ - Literature

Last one hit bump limit - evidently an interesting topic. I really enjoyed it. So keep em coming.

Who have you related to the most?

I don't think I ever related to any author or non-fictional person until I read D.F.W. I knew I related to a couple prominent character traits in Infinite Jest, but then I read Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story...
I'm not sure if it's based in reality, but I have this fear of judgement for essentially saying 'me and this brilliant person are just alike", & I don't want to get bogged down in the details of my mental dysfunctions - but it seems to be mostly for the worse. I had to put down both IJ and the bio at several points because I was either tearing up or about to have a panic attack or some shit in a public setting or not.

Do you relate to DFW on what feels like deep level? if so, can you describe it any better than me?

I'd at least heard the title before he went and killed himself, I wish I could have read it in time to have written to him.
I started writing D.T. Max several months ago. As yet unsent, writing is pretty hard for me so that and all projects have stalled.

What living authors would respond and be worth writing to?

oh and a picture of his girlfriend, karen green