/lit/ - Literature

>My entire personality is disapproving of the cultural cynicism that quickly came and went in the 1990s.

I hate any motherfucker who carries themself as if they know everything. And that is David Foster Wallace, fucking dumb stupid know-it-all bitch.

Was he actually good?

>hmmmm... I need to come up with the next big thing or no one will take my books seriously
>but the postmodernists have already tried everything you could think of
>wait a minute... being subversive and ironic is now the norm... which means not being subversive is itself the most subversive thing you could do!
>heh heh... I'll call it "new sincerity."
admit it, you would have done the same thing

>The interiority of the Chili Head is no more complex than that of the baby-mouth who cannot handle his or her spices. Look across the table, look at the other person being interviewed. He's just wiped sweat from the corner of his eye with a finger that had some greasy sauce on it. There is pain. Should his pain be lesser than yours simply because it is not felt in your own eye? How do you presume to judge him for his foolish mistake when you don't know what his day has been like?
>The chickens these wings came from were factory farmed and debeaked.

Was he the first /lit/ lolcow?

Did David Wallace ever talk about William Gaddis?

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I know bro, look at this horrific hairline.

pussy

What does /lit/ think of David Foster Wallace’s favorite novels
1. The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
2. The Stand, by Stephen King
3. Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris
4. The Thin Red Line, by James Jones
5. Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong
6. The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris
7. Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
8. Fuzz, by Ed McBain
9. Alligator, by Shelley Katz
10. The Sum of All Fears, by Tom Clancy