/lit/ - Literature

why do people so often refer to DFW as being particularly physically attractive? David Lipsky mentions it in his extended interview with Wallace, and Franzen does at one point in one of the articles he wrote about him.

also, why did he try so hard to present himself as something that he wasn't? in his interviews, particularly those in the mid to late nineties, he comes across as being overwhelmingly self-conscious, self-hating, and fake. I read through a collection of interviews with him, and he was a lot more forthcoming about himself in a very real way in his first few major interviews, and then he very significantly stops talking about himself in any meaningful way, and often outright lies.