In a message dated Sat, 20 Nov 1999 8:37:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, grrr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yeah, anything by doug is cool. and anything by mark leyner if you like > hyper, self-obsessed, and totally crazy writing. (not allen ginsbergian, I wrote a paper last semester about why Mark Leyner is destructive to the advancement of culture. Most of my evidence came from David Foster Wallace, from an essay in "A Suppossedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again." My teacher then informed me that Wallace's whole argument was concieved out of mock-spite...apparantly, Wallace and Leyner have some sort of war where they trash each other all over the media and in thier work, but are actually (almost secretly) friends. Kinda like Stephen Malkmus and Billy Corgan. so ooops, my argument was slightly invalid, but regardless, I still find Leyner annoying and I think David Foster Wallace is doing some really interesting stuff. But they're both pretentious, although Coupland, who I enjoy most of the three, is more pretentious than the other two together. Karina
