A quick follow-up to Tim’s post here, which was itself in response to Jackie Wang’s post here. Wang had asked: Do you feel a duty to read and acknowledge your literary, theoretical, and musical foremothers? I’d argue that most people have no idea who their artistic forebears are. For example: students tell me all the [...]
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We Know Best What’s Nearest (Living Art Backwards)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Céline, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Jackie Wang, James Joyce, Jonathan Franzen, Kurt Vonnegut, Lydia Davis, Symbolist poetry, Thomas Pynchon, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Ulysses on December 13, 2010 | 28 Comments »