Well, David Foster Wallace (L) certainly would consider my reading John Updike (R) an example of #guiltypleasures ?... in an essay, DFW called Updike a "penis with a thesaurus " ?and basically dissed him! But Updike wrote so well most of the time; he just happened to have a lot of his works written in/set in the 60s and 70s aka the sexual revolution. Bottom: my Updikes -- not shown are what I have of Updike's art criticism.
manifestsanity I heard DFW later regretted publishing that article. Thought it was bad taste to trash another author so publicly. 8y
LauraJ Nice collection! 8y
LindsayReads Whoa! That's great! 8y
ValerieAndBooks @manifestsanity I would not be surprised if DFW regretted writing the essay. It reads as if he got carried away in his criticism which also was narrowly focused IMO (when I read it a couple years ago-- I should revisit it sometime) 8y
ValerieAndBooks @LauraJ @LindsayReads Thanks 😊 Most have been from used bookstores ! 8y