BRUCE SAYS "HAH!"

This is an excellent DFW article, not just about him but even more from him about the nature of writing and its mission in the modern era:

You teach the reader that he’s way smarter than he thought he was. I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and you’re the sort of person who really just wants to sit in a chair and have it easy. When in fact there are parts of us…that are a lot more ambitious than that. And what we need, I think—and I’m not saying I’m the person to do it…is serious engaged art, that can teach again that we’re smart.

Clean Louis CK

The little Record

Earl King

This is a really nice piece of fiction printed in the NewYorker.  It's based on what I know to be a classic story of the Earl King which was one side of the tiny record we had as kids in the Wixted family - the other side being the Velvet Ribbon.  The writer captures the strange unnerving beauty of the story, the loss and the helplessness and adapts it in a really nice way.  A must read, I feel...