Title: Wanted: An Editor
Product review: The pattern here soon becomes familiar. Start with an oddball premise, sometimes shocking, sometimes offbeat, occasionally brilliant. Find a voice, an authentic voice -- perhaps working class, maybe self-obsessed neurotic, occasionally just delightfully kooky. Then, with these admirable ingredients, proceed to beat the reader over the head with this same premise, this same voice, for 30, 40, or 50 pages. While slogging through this, occasionally smiling, sometimes laughing, but mostly drowning, I recalled Jack Kerouac's famous line "you're a genius all the time." Kerouac wasn't and neither was DFW. But what editor had the balls to tell either of them that?
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