Two exits to Legoland!

Don't forget the gravitons and graviolis!

Don't forget the gravitons and graviolis!

You know, I'm just now getting the fact that "gob" is British slang for mouth, and this candy promises to be just the thing for getting your kids to shut up forever. Like a ball gag in candy form.

You know, I'm just now getting the fact that "gob" is British slang for mouth, and this candy promises to be just the thing for getting your kids to shut up forever. Like a ball gag in candy form.

@avclub-5b8e4fd39d9786228649a8a8bec4e008:disqus I'm not claiming to be the authority on literature, I just found an article that interested me (DFW, and in the way these threads evolve, literature at large) and have been trying to engage in discussion on it. I apologize if I seem to be engaging in self-important…

@avclub-5b8e4fd39d9786228649a8a8bec4e008:disqus I'm not claiming to be the authority on literature, I just found an article that interested me (DFW, and in the way these threads evolve, literature at large) and have been trying to engage in discussion on it. I apologize if I seem to be engaging in self-important…

You mean Stephen King? No wait, he shot John Lennon. (http://www.lennonmurdertrut…)

You mean Stephen King? No wait, he shot John Lennon. (http://www.lennonmurdertrut…)

It's (without spaces) < i > before the word and < / i > after the word. Substitute b for bold and u for underline, I think.

It's (without spaces) < i > before the word and < / i > after the word. Substitute b for bold and u for underline, I think.

It's especially odd to me, because as I understand it, the bias against female novelists is a relatively new thing. The way I understand it, novels were considered a form of low art in the 17-1800s, and more the province of women. Men were supposed to write poetry, scientific works, histories, and other non-fictions.…

It's especially odd to me, because as I understand it, the bias against female novelists is a relatively new thing. The way I understand it, novels were considered a form of low art in the 17-1800s, and more the province of women. Men were supposed to write poetry, scientific works, histories, and other non-fictions.…

@avclub-9c75bab0f5d964591655e73e7c22c540:disqus I see that. And I'm not saying that Clancy isn't a good writer for what he does, but Clancy writes thrillers and Wallace for the most part writes post-modern literature. It's a matter of personal preference as to which you like better, but I don't think you'd find anyone…

@avclub-9c75bab0f5d964591655e73e7c22c540:disqus I see that. And I'm not saying that Clancy isn't a good writer for what he does, but Clancy writes thrillers and Wallace for the most part writes post-modern literature. It's a matter of personal preference as to which you like better, but I don't think you'd find anyone…

@avclub-09dbda0ec297f8e1fb8fa397efd0f70a:disqus: I finally located the essay, it's called "White Elephant and Termite Postures in the Life of the Twenty-first-Century Novelist" (in response to Manny Farber's 1962 essay) and Lethem likes to imagine he straddles the line between "high/White Elephant" literature and…

@avclub-09dbda0ec297f8e1fb8fa397efd0f70a:disqus: I finally located the essay, it's called "White Elephant and Termite Postures in the Life of the Twenty-first-Century Novelist" (in response to Manny Farber's 1962 essay) and Lethem likes to imagine he straddles the line between "high/White Elephant" literature and…

@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus I agree that Gatsby is both a "great" and an "easy" read, but I had much more trouble getting through Moby Dick than I did getting through IJ . It's true that not all difficult books are great and not all great books are difficult, but by limiting oneself to the…

@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus I agree that Gatsby is both a "great" and an "easy" read, but I had much more trouble getting through Moby Dick than I did getting through IJ . It's true that not all difficult books are great and not all great books are difficult, but by limiting oneself to the…

You are correct in some respects, @avclub-09dbda0ec297f8e1fb8fa397efd0f70a:disqus … "Most of The Modern Canon" is a big claim to make, and not really what I meant to say. A metric shitload, yes, but "most"? No, that's a lifetime of reading (and then some), and DFW's not on the list. Have I read Proust? Yes. Beckett?…