Title: Well, I don't know...
Product review: Sometimes DFW seems scared of being honest, like he's trapped in the postmodern "we all know what we're doing here" cliches he seems alternately scared of and disdainful of. He hides behind the footnotes and the overeducated dialect. I still can't tell if there's a point to "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko" or "Church Not Made of Hands" (or whatever non sequitur it was called). But he's honest when he doesn't think too much about it, he's smart, all the "Brief Interviews" are amazing, he has a command of tone he sometimes lacked in "Infinite Jest," and when he is on (and he is on a lot of the time here) he is positively magnetic. It's been a while to wait for him to put it together, and maybe he never will throw down the crutches of unconscious Lernerisms. But if he keeps feeding us stuff like this, I'll occasionally blanch, but I'll down most of it gladly.
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