RECLAIMING DAVID FOSTER WALLACE FROM THE LIT-BROS

[David Morris]

Nice riff!

On Thursday, August 20, 2015, 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
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