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David Foster Wallace thread
The best author of our generation. Who here rockin the /new sincerity/ like it's going out of style?

>> No.13246989
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>> No.13246993

>>13246977
Who?
Why do you think he’s the best?

>> No.13246997
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>> No.13247004

>>13246993
fuck you tripfag
why are you a tripfag
what the fuck is wrong with you?

>> No.13247005
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DFW has been abuelad in to the woke canon by way of AOC's endorsement

>> No.13247007

>>13246989
>>13246997
Source?

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>>13246977
If you havent watched Megan Boyle's uproarious editing of a DFW interview, you're in for a treat:
>youtube.com/watch?v=pqmIAbHXr0Y

>> No.13247015

>>13247004
Wrong board.

>> No.13247018

>>13247007
Oblivion, one of those is an endnote I think

>> No.13247026

>>13246977
I liked this article:
>https://fs.blog/2014/10/david-foster-wallace-quack-this-way/

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>ywn work in an IRS Regional Office in Peoria in the 1980s. Why live?

>> No.13247054

>>13247011
guyshoutingdavidfosterwallaceoutofcar.mov

>> No.13247065

>>13247015
I wanna eat your ass

>> No.13247067

>>13247011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGLzWdT7vGc
started this thread an hour into this one
he's such a qtpi

>> No.13247110

>>13247005
holy shit it's real

>> No.13247257

>>13247005
>a new generation of faggy libtards will now worship DFW
it's like we're living the same nightmare over and over again

>> No.13247272

reading brief interviews with hideous men now and it's my first wallace book, i feel kinda mixed about it, some of the shorts are great and some i find very meh. The one about the dad wiggling his dick was really good as was the depressed person but i think I might've fucked up by starting with this one

>> No.13247286

>>13247272
You did fuck up. Start with his non fiction collections. Buy infinite jest.

>> No.13247300

>>13247272
I had the same experience. His really good stories - like "Forever Overhead" - are some of the best of the era, but most of that book is stories that didn't come off well or that he literally stopped writing halfway through and then gives an apology for why he stopped writing them. Some of the "Interviews" are amazingly well done, a great insight into the male sexual psyche, but most are half-baked.

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>>13247065
>Day 2382: I am still no closer to finding out the attraction the subjects have for their long dead companion. Another one of them seems to have taken a liking to me

>> No.13247309

>>13247286
Thanks. I tried to start with Brief Interviews but it was meh.

>> No.13247337

I have this fantasy that after we die we find out there is an afterlife and David Foster Wallace is there and he has his pants and underwear wrapped around his ankles and every human who has ever walked the earth is together holding hands and rejoicing, but moreso laughing together at David Foster Wallace's Cock because it is so small that it is shaped like a serpinski gasket that just fractals into itself and at the same time contains all of our lives and every possible configuration of the universe and he's like real embarrassed about it and trying to cover up but you have William Gaddis and Faulkner or someone holding his arms back and we are all, together and in unison, laughing at his tiny infinitely small beyond the zero serpinski dick and at how all of the hardships and triumphs of life we took so seriously and endured were all just a part of his regressive ad infinitum weeny, and it is just So Small It Is Beyond Small and all races and sexes and even the animals are there yowling and chirping or hooting in laughter finally as one, unified: forever laughing together in infinite jest.

>> No.13247342

I fucking hate that hack.
Born rich and had connections. Total hypocrite about authenticity too.

>> No.13247451

>>13247342
Jealous

>> No.13247627

Infinite Jest is seriously mind bending. I actually quit smoking pot because of that book. Consider the Lobster is my favorite though.

>> No.13247648

>>13246977
no, he is hack

>> No.13248036

>>13246993
A-a-are you the real b-b- butterfly-chan???!!!
OwO

>> No.13248045

>>13247337
based

>> No.13249137

>>13247627
I heavily related to the very early part about the guy's addiction to marijuana, even though i'm more of a hard drug addict. I wonder if that was from David's personal experience with smoking pot.

>> No.13249143

>>13247451
Not an argument.

>> No.13249147

I will never not laugh at the greatly deserved ridicule of this hack fraud. DFW will be remembered by posterity as the most incompetent snake oil salesman western literature has ever produced.

The only sincere act of his life was when he kicked away the chair. His life was nothing but a series of ironies and lies predicated on the the joke that is new sincerity. The big punchline was the creaking of the rafter and the piss trickling down his leg to the floor.

his epiphany that the only viable thing for him to do was to kill himself was the best thing to happen to literature in 30 years since he began writing because behind all the self aware gimmicks and self help books and the drugs and the audience pussy there was no discernible talent

>> No.13249156

>>13249147
Based. Fuck DFW.

>> No.13249306

>>13247627
>high-resin dope
he missed out on a golden age

>> No.13249330

>>13246989
newest black mirror episodes tho

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>> No.13250325

>>13250294
If this isn't him it's a damn perfect parody of his style

>> No.13250355

Good Old Neon is one of the best short stories.

If you disagree, you shouldn't be allowed to read.

>> No.13251176

>>13247050
>work in an IRS Regional Office in Peoria in the 1980s. Why live?
fixed that for you pal

>> No.13251190

>>13251176
At least you'd be unambiguously contributing to a greater order, sustaining harmony in a large and complex man made system

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>>13251190
While the song based on The Pale King sucks, it is about the concept you mention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig5PlwXGA0E

>> No.13251656

>>13247308
Show feet pleeeeeaaase

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>>13251656