wallace-l: Coverage of DFW

[Matt Bucher]

Lev Grossman in Time Magazine:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1842295,00.html

I'm not a fan of Grossman's. He gets many details wrong (DFW's "first"
agent is still his agent) and is not good at "getting in the head" of
someone like Wallace.
"What was "it"? In Infinite Jest Wallace wrote--in a passage that now
reads like a lucid cell-phone call from the pilot of a crashing 747"
-- made me wince.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Diana Hoffer <diana.hoffer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> "Most of the modern writing I like the best is both sophisticated and
>>> colloquial—that is, high-level and complicated but at the same time
>>> intimate, sort of like a smart person is sitting right there talking to
>>> you—and I think I do little more than try to achieve this same high-low
>>> blend."
>
>
> I thought about posting that sentence too. Describes so well what many
> of us love about his writing. Whenever I've been trying to mentally
> compose something to say about what made his writing so special,
> "intimate" has been the key word.
>
> Also this:
>
> "...feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond
> between us all."
>
> Diana
>
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