/lit/ - Literature

>>19995190
Because he would still be alive if he stopped repressing

>>19995190
You want to fucking know?

I'll tell you about this fraud of a writer:

>Wallace misrepresented dozens of facts in almost all of his nonfiction essays. Many facts are completely stolen from other journalist’s experiences or flat-out made up. For example, in his porn convention essay (in Consider the Lobster) he describes a woman with breast implants that have external valves that allow them to be pumped up or depressed at will. This was a complete fabrication — such implants did not exist in the 1990’s when he was writing the piece. Many events described in that same essay (in the first-person) were actually related to Wallace by another journalist.

>Other made-up facts: The baton-twirling scene in the essay “Ticket to the Fair” was completely made up, as was the identity and existence of his companion in that piece.

>Many facts, people, nicknames, and interactions described in“Rise, Simba!” were similarly made up.

>“Consider the Lobster” was not subversive; Wallace wrote the piece on his own and then sold it to Gourmet, he wasn’t sent to the event by Gourmet as a journalistic enterprise, though he claims as much in the essay.

>His early works (Broom of the System and some of Girl with Curious Hair) cribbed plots and stylistic elements from Pynchon and Delillo. The theft was so overt that Wallace worried about plagiarism suits throughout his career.

And as an abuser:

>He pushed the poet and memoirist Mary Karr from a speeding vehicle.

>He threw a coffee table at Karr and shattered it.

>After attempting to pay Karr back for destroying the table he threw at her, he demanded that she give him shards of the table to keep.

>He stalked Karr and punched out her car window.

>He assaulted a student during a creative writing class he was teaching.

>He had sex with his creative writing students and, while on book tour, a 17-year-old.

>He stalked Karr and her five-year-old son, and threatened to shoot Karr’s husband with a gun he’d bought for that express purpose.

>>19995202
>t. always misses the point

>>19995202
Ask me how I know you're a "woman"

>>19995202
dial 8

>>19995202
>Many facts are completely stolen from other journalist’s experiences
what is wrong with this? do journos treat facts like anthropologists? also *journalists'
t. not a journo

>>19995202
>search for this post
>finds article
>author pronoun: He/It

Infinite Jest has a tranny character that lives the worst life ever. He almost shits to death in a library toilet.

>>19995202
None of these objections about his writing mean shit. You clearly have a personal issue with hime. Fine. Plagiarism of ideas is almost impossible to prove and is frankly, at least in literature, bullshit. Look up transtextuality, all literature borrows or steals from other literature. Get over it.