http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:16:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-55462 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-55462#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:16:08 +0000 SweetJane http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-55462 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-55462/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-55019 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-55019#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:14:27 +0000 joeclark http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-55019 Autobloggatio: "What's almost as pointless as a bottom with nine inches uncut? A novelist with nine inches uncut."]]> Autobloggatio: "What's almost as pointless as a bottom with nine inches uncut? A novelist with nine inches uncut."]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-55019/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-54883 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-54883#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:08:12 +0000 SemperBufo http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-54883 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-54883/feed 0 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http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-53240 A Supposedly Fun Thing, and then go for Infinite Jest.]]> A Supposedly Fun Thing, and then go for Infinite Jest.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-53240/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-53238 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-53238#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:02:38 +0000 barnhouse 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http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52844/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52838 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52838#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:23:26 +0000 spanish bombs http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52838 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52838/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52832 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52832#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:43:37 +0000 DorothyMantooth http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52832 i.e., sexytime writing), but I don't think I could subscribe to an argument that the antidepressants are irrelevant to this discussion. Indeed, I think the scant 2 sentences about it in the grand scheme of this piece were just about perfectly apt. Your mileage et cetera.)]]> i.e., sexytime writing), but I don't think I could subscribe to an argument that the antidepressants are irrelevant to this discussion. Indeed, I think the scant 2 sentences about it in the grand scheme of this piece were just about perfectly apt. Your mileage et cetera.)]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52832/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52831 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52831#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:22:11 +0000 DorothyMantooth http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52831 Wallace's other work. Full disclosure: I've only read IJ once, but all of his anthologies, both fiction and non-, at least twice. (Save Everything and More -- that actually sorta borders on unreadable for me, I'm embarrassed to admit.) Broom of the System currently stands at 4 and is probably my favorite novel. Period. All this is to say: I fear that calling Wallace's non-fiction essays his best work bespeaks only a passing familiarity with his canon*. Sorries, Abe! *[obligatory DFW footnote!] I decided "canon" was less obnoxious than oeuvre. Thoughts?]]> Wallace's other work. Full disclosure: I've only read IJ once, but all of his anthologies, both fiction and non-, at least twice. (Save Everything and More -- that actually sorta borders on unreadable for me, I'm embarrassed to admit.) Broom of the System currently stands at 4 and is probably my favorite novel. Period. All this is to say: I fear that calling Wallace's non-fiction essays his best work bespeaks only a passing familiarity with his canon*. Sorries, Abe! *[obligatory DFW footnote!] I decided "canon" was less obnoxious than oeuvre. Thoughts?]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52831/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52830 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52830#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:11:57 +0000 DorothyMantooth http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52830 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52830/feed 0 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http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52577#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:23:44 +0000 barnhouse http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52577 far more skilled at communicating a full, credible (and, consequently, genuinely moving) picture of eroticism than the penis-with-a-thesaurus gang could ever have dreamed up. In the case of Infinite Jest, what a nerve to suggest the pot-addled Erdedy as a model, when a few brief pages away is the heartbreakingly steamy tale of Bruce Green and Mildred L. Bonk! I ASK you.]]> far more skilled at communicating a full, credible (and, consequently, genuinely moving) picture of eroticism than the penis-with-a-thesaurus gang could ever have dreamed up. In the case of Infinite Jest, what a nerve to suggest the pot-addled Erdedy as a model, when a few brief pages away is the heartbreakingly steamy tale of Bruce Green and Mildred L. Bonk! I ASK you.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52577/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52573 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52573#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:21:05 +0000 Jasmine http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52573 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52573/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52572 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52572#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:18:41 +0000 sethcolterwalls http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52572 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52572/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52566 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52566#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:13:33 +0000 LondonLee http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52566 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52566/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52559 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52559#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:08:15 +0000 lizp http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52559 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52559/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52552 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52552#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:04:15 +0000 davidwatts http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52552 Brief Interviews, and the general quality of being hopelessly lost in your own indecision (and not in some hooker's vagina) that a lot of his writing has. But, yes, the examples she picks are horrible, and more likely the result of a Lexis-Nexis search for "Wallace Updike Desire" than any sort of understanding of DFW. And also, as you so ably point out, likely totally untrue, in toto. I would also like to just say that "hero-type action" is a delightfully DFW-y turn of phrase, and I loved it.]]> Brief Interviews, and the general quality of being hopelessly lost in your own indecision (and not in some hooker's vagina) that a lot of his writing has. But, yes, the examples she picks are horrible, and more likely the result of a Lexis-Nexis search for "Wallace Updike Desire" than any sort of understanding of DFW. And also, as you so ably point out, likely totally untrue, in toto. I would also like to just say that "hero-type action" is a delightfully DFW-y turn of phrase, and I loved it.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52552/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52547 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52547#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:00:03 +0000 mathnet http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52547 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52547/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52546 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52546#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:59:10 +0000 lizp http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52546 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52546/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52542 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52542#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:53:47 +0000 katiebakes http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52542 http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/booked-up-with-seth-colter-walls-an-incredibly-un-fun-misreading-of-david-foster-wallace-that-katie-roiphe-should-never-do-again#comment-52542/feed 0