/lit/ - Literature

Who are the most sincere authors?

Did DFW succeed in being sincere?

>"Edel had heard hints of bad behavior, and received at least one strongly worded letter from a member of the ISU community calling him out for “honoring someone who had taken advantage of women, particularly students,” as he described it. But stacked against all the deification of Wallace as a world-historical genius/saint, this stuff had failed to fully dent his consciousness. Now, he couldn’t post to the conference’s Facebook page without being asked point-blank how he justified celebrating an abuser."

How does /lit/ justify reading an "abuser" like David Foster Wallace?

>>12605980
Dave was very congenial for me. Very much like me, even in his temperment and "outbursts."

>>12498975
Why did he leave us? :(

>>12456766
You have much to learn.

How much television (including modern media) do you watch? I try to keep it below 10 hours per week, but it's hard.

>>12442318
I'm going to get flak for this, but I really like Dave Wallace. One of my favorite American writers.

>>12433203
He was off of his antidepressants. Sometimes it feels like you just stop.

what was he so sad about?

How can something be sad and banal at the same time? That literally makes no sense

>Literature
One plus one equals two and there's something terribly sad and banal about it.

>Math
1 + 1 = 2

>mark is so obviously the top literary wunderkind of the '90s
>better stir up some half-thought-out shit about irony
>easy with the teeth, Franzen

>>5079858
>dfw low blow