Hey /lit/ I've read DFW and some Franzen, but never read
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Hey /lit/ I've read DFW and some Franzen, but never read Mark Leyner. Is it worthwhile to spend the time finding and reading his books?
He's a period piece.
>>7888585
So he's not worth reading?
>>7888568
try picking up one of his books and looking at the words printed inside. sometimes they mean something that appeals to certain people. you might be one of them
I read one of his books in 2003 that I enjoyed.
I can't recall which it was.
I don't think I'd like him today.
He's nothing like DFW, if that's what you're looking for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwfQl2LGhwc
in this video, Franzen makes a distinction between masscult (television) audiences, and audiences who enjoy literary fiction, and at about 11:50, you can see what fun he and DFW must have had engaging in intellectual pissing contests with one another:
DFW: "So, the only people who read—like—serious fiction are the people who don't watch TV?"
Franzen: "No . . . Thank you for drawing that out for me." [coughs]
DFW: "If I mis-heard, enlighten me." [smug]
the homoerotic smartguy tension is palpable.
>>7888723
Leyner seems to lack even the "intellectual firepower" of Franzen and is very out of place at that table
>>7888723
>thanks dave, for drawing that out for me lol
>if i misheard, maybe i deserve an enlightening lol