DFW in Atlantic April 2005 Issue

[Will Layman]

I have to confess to being mesmerized by both of the articles you mention.
I thought the Lethem piece was not so much a list of music/movies as it was
a serious exploration of the way certain young men (count me in) use the art
they encounter when they are young as a convenient crutch (or, as he calls
it, beard) to cover any real search for identity.  The line about how,
looking back on it, he realizes he wanted to wear a Talking Heads album
cover in place of his own head and shout, "Hey, here I am!" really
registered.

DFW's piece, I thought, was a true look at the people behind this, but just
the usual liberal handwringing.  Other thoughts?

-- Will Layman

On 3/8/05 10:25 AM, "richard romeo" <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> another pretty lame article on talk radio by DFW--conservative talk
> radio bad is the jist of it
> 
> the younger postmoderns seem to be more willing than the older crew
> writing in the 60s and 70s/80s in various jaunts of journalistic
> wanderings regarding the quotidian than their predecessors (see
> Lethem's article in last week's New Yorker--getting paid to list all
> the music or film-makers you're not into anymore--yikes)
> 
> the number of pieces is high but the quality sure isn't
> 
> rich