But, as [David Foster]Wallace saw it, irony could critique but it couldn’t nourish or redeem. He told McCaffery, “Look, man, we’d probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?”

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/09/the-unfinished#:~:text=The%20writer%20David%20Foster%20Wallace,been%20in%20a%20deep%20depression.