Name a bigger failure. Go on, I'll wait.
>>24795522He killed himself because he realized his books sucked.
>>24795529Yes.
literature as a whole.
>>24795537this fag never read Hemingway
>>24795522When did DFW ever use the phrase "New Sincerity"?
>>24795522I don't take advice from dudes who topped themselves
>>24795539>Hemingway>goodthis fag never read Hemingway
>>24795545>hemingway>badthis fag never read Hilary Mantel
>>24795541man shut the fuck up
>>24795556>Hilary Mantellooked like Gollum
>>24795622>he bases the literary gods on their visual appearanceembarrassing
>>24795648people who don't make the effort to try to look good are just self-centered. Why would I care what some narcissist thinks?
>>24795788lmao
>>24795788>people who don't make the effort to try to look good are just self-centeredmishima bros keep winning
>>24795522He literally said it would be a failure.>The next real literary "rebels" in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of "anti-rebels," born oglers who dare to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall to actually endorse single-entendre values. Who treat old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that'll be the point, why they'll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk things. Risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. The new rebels might be the ones willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the "How banal." Accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Credulity. Willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows.
>>24796191so sitcom writers
>Name a bigger failureMy marriageMy bandMy literary careerMy education My last jobMy healthMy battle with mental illnessMy battle with substance abuseMy life as a whole, really
