Besides a number of instances of clunky, clichéd writing, Pascale has a tendency to summarize and explain every movie and episode she references.
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s and early 2000s, and Ebert was in our house on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
What’s in store from there is a series of four or five other essays as long and verbose and warm-blooded as anything in the author’s two previous nonfiction collections.
There’s no reason to doubt that writing this novel may have shaken Smith out of any complacency she may have felt about her previous works.
The catch of the book is that something science-fictionally surreal or fantastic is always going on within the worlds of these dithering, sentimental protagonists.
Levé’s ambivalence to the memoir as a construct prevails throughout Autoportrait, its own kind of deformation, wherein the act of explaining a life becomes interchangeable with describing an image.
It creates a this-is-your-life kind of recap of how the long hours around the publication of those two great novels, The Corrections and Freedom, were killed.
If the purpose of Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere was to explain all these “new global revolutions,” it’s somewhat of a let down.
A “review” of sorts that makes no pretence to politeness gets to the core of the problem for skeptics.
After finishing Storycraft, I know I won’t be applying for an MFA in creative writing anytime soon, but I may in the future add a few more writing guidebooks to my reading shelf.
What we can glean from the story comes to us in the form of characters defined not by marriage, but by sex—the having of it, the anticipation, and the desire to explicate of it.
Were his life a sentence, would Wallace want an unfinished, incomplete work to form the period?
David Foster Wallace’s masterful prose doesn’t translate to cinematic language, and I doubt it would work in any context other than the page.
Wallace wrote for Premiere in the mid-to-late 1990s, about subjects as diverse as David Lynch, Terminator 2, and the Adult Video News Awards.
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