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was this the most influential interview in /lit/ history?

>> No.10164695

>>10164688

>interviewer asks some complex question about philosophy
>"I'm trying to think of an interesting answer to that."
>that embarrassing moment when you no longer care about the shit you studied in college after over a full decade of being a published writer

>> No.10164743

Where can I find the best zoom ins of DFW's face during this interview

>> No.10164747

>>10164743
the whole interview is the best zoom in on his face

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>>10164688
Without resorting to name-calling, can someone offer a sensible critique of Wallace's writing? I read Oblivion and Brief Interviews, and I liked both of them a lot.

>> No.10165236

>>10165224
yeah but read infinite jest or broom of the system

>> No.10165238

>>10164688
No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-hIVnmUdXM

>> No.10165240

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNOXuurUODE

>> No.10165249

>>10165236
I can't imagine his shtick works in long doses, but what is specifically worse about them?

>> No.10165253

>>10165240
what a loser

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>>10164743

>> No.10165389

>>10165240
anglo pseud journalists BTFO

>> No.10165438

>>10165240
what a cunt desu
>>10165238
No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgDY9yDi90o

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>>10164743

>> No.10165757

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gu9l_TqS8I

>> No.10165792

Not even close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2BJSV8Q1Yw

>> No.10165934

>>10165249
in his own words about IJ:
>I don’t think it’s very good—some clipping called a published excerpt feverish and not entirely satisfying, which goes a long way toward describing the experience of writing the thing.
Infinite Jest is the work of an obviously talented person, and there is quite a bit good writing in there, but the novel is a complete mess that can't be safeguarded by calling it post-modern or experimental. It was a clunky synthesis of American fiction from like 1960-1990 which turned out to be really not all that necessary. He pretty much says this in one of his later Oblivion radio interviews (I'm not about to help anyone find it, google is your friend). Once he started teaching writing full time is when he finally figured out that his writing needed to reigned in and that economy is actually an important aesthetic quality. Also as he got older I think he realized that his writing about people was good enough that he no longer needed to scaffold it with games. I still like IJ though, and I think there have been a lot worse novels written by early thirty year olds. He gets a pass in my opinion.

>> No.10166112

>>10165757
Maybe, had he been interviewed by someone at least somewhat competent. Soler Serrano was absolutely incompetent as an interviewer.