March 23rd, 2010 / 2:03 am
Snippets

This book is just crushing, and so much.

12 Comments

  1. gene

      i read it twice in three days. no sense of sarcasm when i say it changed something in me.

  2. gene

      i read it twice in three days. no sense of sarcasm when i say it changed something in me.

  3. stephen

      damn. want to read this so bad.

  4. stephen

      damn. want to read this so bad.

  5. (Ass-Brackets)

      If David Foster Wallace was alive he would use that book to wipe his ass after going three sets with Shlomo Glickstein. People like David Lipsky are the reason people like David Foster Wallace commit suicide.

  6. (Ass-Brackets)

      If David Foster Wallace was alive he would use that book to wipe his ass after going three sets with Shlomo Glickstein. People like David Lipsky are the reason people like David Foster Wallace commit suicide.

  7. zusya

      now that you mention it, A.B.–

      i’m pretty sure ‘it’ actually had something to do with the fact that he was a clinical depressive, and had just quit–cold turkey–medications he had been taking for somewhen in the ballpark of a decade.

  8. zusya

      now that you mention it, A.B.–

      i’m pretty sure ‘it’ actually had something to do with the fact that he was a clinical depressive, and had just quit–cold turkey–medications he had been taking for somewhen in the ballpark of a decade.

  9. ryan

      Pretty sure DFW admitted somewhere that he loved reading biographies. He was simply too neurotic to ever appreciate a book written about himself. (He had to pretend Wallace-L didn’t exist.)

      Now wraith-DFW—freed of those neuroses—can simply sit back and admire how many peoples’ lives he touched, the love his works emitted. (I wouldn’t mind if he came back and set a “Oriental-type” can of Coca-Cola on my own “broad flat forehead.”)

  10. ryan

      Pretty sure DFW admitted somewhere that he loved reading biographies. He was simply too neurotic to ever appreciate a book written about himself. (He had to pretend Wallace-L didn’t exist.)

      Now wraith-DFW—freed of those neuroses—can simply sit back and admire how many peoples’ lives he touched, the love his works emitted. (I wouldn’t mind if he came back and set a “Oriental-type” can of Coca-Cola on my own “broad flat forehead.”)

  11. Blake Butler

      it’s not a bio. it’s basically just wallace actually speaking. lipsky’s presence is totally irrelevant. i was pissed when i heard about it coming out. it’s not what you think.

  12. Blake Butler

      it’s not a bio. it’s basically just wallace actually speaking. lipsky’s presence is totally irrelevant. i was pissed when i heard about it coming out. it’s not what you think.