/lit/ - Literature

>“Right now I am a pathetic and very confused young man, a failed writer at 28, who is so jealous, so sickly searingly envious of [Jonathan Franzen] and Vollmann and Mark Leyner and even David F–kwad Leavitt and any young man who is right now producing pages with which he can live … that I consider suicide a reasonable — if not at this point a desirable — option with respect to the whole wretched problem.”

why wasn't he jealous of any female authors?

>tfw when you've been canonized

Library of America putting out a special edition of Wallace's tennis essays. Probably the only thing stopping them from putting out the rest of his work is copyright.

Wallace = canonized. Suck it, haters.

http://www.amazon.com/String-Theory-Wallace-Library-Publication/dp/1598534807

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>mfw this was the cause of DFW suicide