Endnotes: David Foster Wallace

[jochen stremmel]

Regarding AA stuff, may I call to your attention Elmore Leonard's
Unknown Man No. 89? If you don't know it you should read it. It's grim
but it's fun.

Jochen

2011/2/15  <malignd at aol.com>:
> Not that you need or want my opinion, but I agree with Rich.  I began IJ
> dutifully and ended up liking it very much.  The AA stuff is particularly
> good.  It's been over a decade, I guess, so the specifics fall away, but I
> read it with great pleasure and enthusiasm.  Footnotes and all.e.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Fri, Feb 11, 2011 9:26 am
> Subject: Re: Endnotes: David Foster Wallace
>
>
> Hi Tore--You still haven't told me if you liked Valhalla Rising ;)Anyway,
> yes I think IJ was the American novel of the 90's but I thinkhis short
> stories were uneven, to the brilliance of Girl with theCurious Hair and John
> Billy to the dull minimalism of BriefEncounters. Oblivion seemed labored to
> me. In some sense I am lookingfwd to reading The Pale King, another novel to
> be more specific.I dont think he published enough and I would say he has the
> respectwhich he deserves but would never label him as mainstreamand shouldnt
> leave out some of the great essays he wrotehe exhibited as much range as
> Pynchon (at least in IJ) and I willalways remember the book fondly as to
> time and place mid-90s postcollege angst and drug withdrawals, etc.richOn
> Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
> wrote:>> rich:>>> DFW had alot of talent but I'm not sure he will ever be
> seen as>> translating that talent into more than a cult figure following>>
> Surely DFW had more than just talent? I remember you calling Infinite Jest
> "the novel of the> 90es," and I tend to agree. And doesn't it take more than
> just talent to write the novel of the decade?>> As for the cult following,
> DFW has garnered both more mainstream and more academic attention these
> past> couple-three years than Pynchon. Of course this partly has to do with
> the suicide, but I'd say that the intrinsic> merit of his work also has a
> lot to do with it.>> Tore>
>