Essay: ‘While reviewing the Pale King and other things Wallace-like’
On Wallace being a fraud Granted, he writes like an asshole at times. Other times, you admire him for sticking it out and spinning the narrative his own way. Bret Easton Ellis wrote about him on twitter once, seven times, consecutively – that DFW was (was because he is dead now) the master of pretention....
Essay: ‘Nadine Gordimer: Portrait of a writer’ by Barnil Bhattacharjee
“Come away, O human Child!/ To the waters and the wild/With a faery, hand in hand,/ For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” ~ Yeats, The Stolen Child Visibly distraught, she slowly stood up from the podium chair. Turning right, she started walking across to the microphone. Hundreds of eyeballs, stretched-out...