I had a specific occasion to do some reconsidering after reading a typically interesting and insightful essay by author/critic Patricia Lockwood on the work of the late David Foster Wallace, biblioracle writes.
More than 30 years after having first read Wallace’s work and being truly wowed by it, literally feeling a jolt of energy, this no longer happens.
But at the same time, I feel the echo of that feeling. I am not that young man anymore, but also, I will always be that young man, if that makes sense. That’s not a bad thing either. I can look back on that past self with some fondness and understanding, even though he still had some growing to do. John Warner is the author of “Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities.”John Warner tells you what to read based on the last five books you’ve read.
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