Kurt Vonnegut, writing in response to Jonathan Franzen’s April Folio on American novelists, “Perchance to Dream,” claims that “Novelists are people who believe they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations.” This makes Vonnegut look humble and lovable, but as a response to the stuff Franzen was talking about is total horseshit.
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David Foster Wallace vs. Kurt Vonnegut...Writers, any artists really, have to fight this...
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I’m sorry, no, you’re the horseshit. As a writer who dealt exclusively with his own neuroses, both meta-literary and...
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question posed: SO MUCH sack my affections
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