David Foster Wallace article

[twirlgrrl]

http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhpremiere.html

OCR scanned with errors, but still one of my favorite things that David Foster Wallace ever wrote: An article about David Lynch. It takes some doing to get through, and I know no one has time to read such irrelevancies anymore--it's about a movie that came out 13 years ago--but worth posting, just the same. He captures the way I feel about David Lynch's creepiness in a way I would never have been able to articulate. And of course he's hilarious as always. I love the multilayeredness, footnotes and interminable sentences. Some of that he has in common with other entertaining writers, but I love that DFW makes things so personal; he doesn't distance himself with irony (like, say, Dave Eggers.)

So, my crush on DFW continues posthumously. I have a thing for brilliant men. Too bad so many brilliant men are also crazy, moody, and self-obsessed.

Comments

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

haven't read this yet. may be worth printing out. did you see the nyer piece on DFW within the past few mo?

[twirlgrrl.livejournal.com]

I didn't but I would love to. Wonder if I can search it out.

[twirlgrrl.livejournal.com]

P.S. You have impeccable taste in so many things! :)