RECLAIMING DAVID FOSTER WALLACE FROM THE LIT-BROS

[Dave Monroe]

I've never read it, despite fans who are big fans.   I will see the
movie about DFW (arrives this weekend here), but I figure, if I've
gone one big novel left to me, it's gonna be GR (again).

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:14 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> VW speculated that had Shakespeare a sister, and were female authors allowed
> a room of their own, women writers might produce not Hamlets or Moby-Dicks,
> or Wastelands, or infinite Jests, but works that would not be dismissed as
> drawing room gossip and the mad women's scribbling from an attic, but
> Shakespeare had no sister who wrote plays, and a room of one's own, an ivory
> tower room even, is no substitute for a penis, not to mention balls.
>
> In Harper Lee's latest, Scout gets knocked about by her uncle Jack,
> intellectually and physically. Lee tries to convince us that Scout needed a
> good beating to get her father off her mount Olympus, and though she fails
> at this, she reminds us that reading the NY Times  and wearing pants does
> not free even an independent young feminist from Faulkner's incestuous South
> anymore than DFW's swipes at Roth and Updike free him from the tennis racket
> he sat on or the academic arrogance he wrapped round his skull of
> insecurity. We've com a long way baby, but we still babies.
>
> On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> HAS ANYONE ACTUALLY READ INFINITE JEST?
>>
>> http://lithub.com/reclaiming-david-foster-wallace-from-the-lit-bros/
>>
>> Why Literary Chauvinists Love David Foster Wallace
>>
>>
>> http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/08/david-foster-wallace-beloved-author-of-bros.html
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