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Sally
Jan 9, 2007


Don't post Small Dash!

thomas pynchon posted:

That whole DFW essay (or review, I guess, since it was just about the Updike book) is a treat. I haven't stopped calling Mailer, Roth, and Updike the "great male narcissists" since I read that.

It's not wrong, either. All of their later-year books (except maybe Mailer, who I'm under-educated with) are about old professors loving twenty-year-olds.

Bringing it back to McCarthy: I wish he wrote more non-fiction. I'd like to have a better idea of what the guy thinks of the world at-large. I know he's averse to that, but it's fascinating to think about, especially what he thinks of modern-day literature, if he thinks anything of it. He touched on this a little in an NPR interview years back (with Werner Herzog!), but, unsurprisingly, he was the quietest in the room.

Which review was this? I love me some DFW and want to read this.

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Grizzled Patriarch
Mar 27, 2014

These dentures won't stop me from tearing out jugulars in Thunderdome.



Blind Sally posted:

Which review was this? I love me some DFW and want to read this.

One of his shorter pieces:

http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/observer1.html

UrAClassAct
Apr 10, 2012
http://www.academia.edu/14778742/_Books_are_Made_out_of_Books_David_Foster_Wallace_and_Cormac_McCarthy_

UrAClassAct
Apr 10, 2012
The Passenger

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

la calaca tilica y flaca
Is The Passenger really not coming out until a year after McCarthy dies like it says in that Youtube description? Brutal.

Jewmanji
Dec 28, 2003
Wow. I am deeply uncomfortable with the idea of anticipating my favorite author's death. That is so apt.

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Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

la calaca tilica y flaca
There is no evidence on the Cormac McCarthy forums or anywhere else I can find of that release thing, I think "sometime in 2017" is probably a lot more likely.

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