DFW in Atlantic April 2005 Issue

[richard romeo]

I guess my angle to be frank is:  tell me something I don't
know--maybe I'm older and such dawning recognitions in parallel with a
writer's musings isn't what it used to be--yes, I too have lost
interest in DeLillo but, so what? just wondered in the Lethem piece
what the point of it all was.

same with DFW radio piece--remove the slang and encyclopedia asides
and what remains?  not much, IMHO beyond the notion that talk radio is
poison. (I think air america is just as bad btw)

rich


>> >From: Will Layman <WillLayman at comcast.net>
> >
> >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.
> 
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