Post post modernism

Book: brief interviews with hideous men
Author: David Foster Wallace
Completion date: 12/11/10
method: Purchased

This is my second DFW book. I really love reading his books of essays because i find him a bit overwhelming and i like to be able to take breaks and regroup, both in terms of his emotional tole and intellectual tole. i found that the essays in these books were much more convoluted than the essays in a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again.
this book felt like a dive into post modern writing. frequently i found i was chasing myself in intellectual circles, or should i say, i was being placed in them by wallace.
as per usual (especially when you're blogging about a book hmmm months after you finished it) i found one essay stuck with me and stood out as my favorite- the internal dialogue of the dying father to his disappointing son. It was to the son that didn't do exactly what the father thought was best (including keeping his nails long). it was a bizarre insight into the relationship between parent and child. its hard not to wonder if the father is wallace's own and wallace as the part of the son. however, i could be totally wrong on that one...
xo- ellebee


postscript- this one is so short because i read the book so long ago... i've been working on this long backlog of books, so forgive me xo