Comments on: Bookmarked! 19th September 2008

By: Sonja

Sonja — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:26:00 +0000

This has absolutely nothing to do with well the topic at hand, but I just wanted to thank you for having this site. The links you’ve provided on your publishing category posts have been helpful for me in writing my Information Essay for college.

So…danke schoen!

By: jz

jz — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:34:07 +0000

That should have been “I can’t really count myself a youth…”

By: jz

jz — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:33:00 +0000

“Ah, the ignorance of youth. ”

To be honest, I hadn’t ever heard of David Foster Wallace before last week either (and I can really count myself a youth at this point). For better or for worse, I’m considerably more aware of genre fiction than literary fiction.

I should take a look at his work.

By: Lethe

Lethe — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:23:42 +0000

David Foster Wallace lived in my hometown (Bloomington, IL) while he was writing Infinite. He may even been born here, not sure. But his spirit looms, especially after his death. I’ve known several people who met him and who saw him at AA meetings, which he was going to for a time for his depression. He seems to have a huge fan following and is revered as one of the greats; there is a article in the NYtimes titled “The Best Mind of his Generation”. Here’s a snippit: “The moods that Mr. Wallace distilled so vividly on the page–the gradations of sadness and madness embedded in the obssessive, recursive, exhausting prose style that characterized both his journalism and his fiction–crystallized an unhappy collective consciousness.”

Thanks for the support Eli.

By: Sol Mann

Sol Mann — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:11:51 +0000

Thanks so much for the plug Eli! :)

I actually decided to put the content warning up (even though there are no explicit pictures or anything) just to be on the safe side. The story gets progressively more graphic.

When I was reading the fine print for blogger I found a part that said you can get in trouble if they decide it needs the warning and you didn’t put it up. Smart move? Bad move? Not necesary?

Thanks again!

Sol

PS: Oh and Chris, I did revise chapter 3 this afternoon. :P Thanks again guys!

By: Eli James

Eli James — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:14:46 +0000

You’re welcomed, Chris. Novelr’s for the community, after all. Part of my job is to release shoutouts.

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:16:09 +0000

Thanks for the link. :) It’s appreciated.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:13:22 +0000

No problem, Chris. Sol actually emailed me about his blook, so I thought it’ll be good to put it up here. I wonder, though – why does Blogger mark it as explicit content?

By: Chris Poirier

Chris Poirier — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:49:09 +0000

Doh! I’d started reading Estimated Time of Arrival when we listed it, and for some reason, I thought I’d already reviewed it. I’d better get on it!

Thanks for the reminder.