Special AceGent Rock ConfidantSep 14, 2018
garfield
the reason young people dont "read books" (that is, read poetry or "literary" novels) is because every contemporary writer is a rich person writing for rich people
Sep 14, 2018 at 6:04pmWeb
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@garfiald

Jonathan Franzen has never lived paycheck to paycheck so forgive me if I don't value his work

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@cjwyoming Nothing gets me so excited that I start hopping on both feet like the prospect of reading about a professor dating a younger woman and then being sad about it for 400 pages
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@garfiald

Every contemporary author is just doing a bad DFW impression

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@cjwyoming DFW was just doing a bad Thomas Pynchon impression
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@garfiald and Thomas Pynchon was unreadable in the first place