help name author? [not TRP]

[Murthy Yenamandra]

Christopher Gonzales writes:
> A while back, someone posted a message about an author (XXX?) and said
> something like "this author writes 1,000 pages of literary pyrotechnics,
> and says he always keeps the reader in mind, meanwhile Vonnegut, who writes
> thin novels, says he only writes for himself."

The author is David Foster Wallace and this was in the letters section
of the Harper's (someone responding to DFW's letter criticizing Kurt
Vonnegut's letter Re: the article "In the age of _something_ a reason to
write novels", by Jonathan Kozol, I think).

Murthy

-- 
Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
"When a war breaks our, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long."
But though a war may well be "too stupid" that doesn't prevent its lasting.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way;  as we should see if we were not
always so wrapped up in ourselves."  Camus