sublimeguile

His entire literary output barely ranked a step up from a Frasier episode; he leaves nothing behind but an embarrassing giant blowjob of John McCain from a 2000 issue of Rolling Stone, and some unreadable book as thick as an anvil, full of spot-the-literary-allusion games for middlebrow academics: Highlights magazine for grad students.

I think suicide is pretty horrible thing for the people abandoned, so I don’t want to be too nasty.  But everything that I’ve read of his has been such inane drivel that its frustrating to hear people who like him.  The reason that people don’t care about self-important art is that artists like this don’t care much about their audience.

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