Comments on: What is the What and 826 Valencia http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2007/08/27/what-is-the-what-and-826-valencia/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:15:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: casey http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2007/08/27/what-is-the-what-and-826-valencia/#comment-15436 casey Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:14:13 +0000 http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2007/08/27/what-is-the-what-and-826-valencia/#comment-15436 That's a good attitude, and one I try hard to maintain. Getting old helps. ;-) re: JSF: my wife, who is the MFA in creative fiction, has a pronounced distaste for Foer, and I simply don't have time to verify her opinion — especially when there's a fresh copy of <em>The Atlantic Monthly</em> to plow through. That’s a good attitude, and one I try hard to maintain. Getting old helps. ;-)

re: JSF: my wife, who is the MFA in creative fiction, has a pronounced distaste for Foer, and I simply don’t have time to verify her opinion — especially when there’s a fresh copy of The Atlantic Monthly to plow through.

]]> By: Josh http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2007/08/27/what-is-the-what-and-826-valencia/#comment-15433 Josh Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:06:56 +0000 http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2007/08/27/what-is-the-what-and-826-valencia/#comment-15433 But if you indeed haven't read Safran Foer then you're right, you can't make fun of it... And you should read it. It's good. The point that I tried to make before giving up and going to bed last night, was that I've moved on from giving them shit, and have learned to relax and take in what's good, and forget about what's bad. And there was a lot of good last night -- maybe I'm just an obnoxious hipster! But if you indeed haven’t read Safran Foer then you’re right, you can’t make fun of it…

And you should read it. It’s good.

The point that I tried to make before giving up and going to bed last night, was that I’ve moved on from giving them shit, and have learned to relax and take in what’s good, and forget about what’s bad. And there was a lot of good last night — maybe I’m just an obnoxious hipster!

]]> By: casey http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2007/08/27/what-is-the-what-and-826-valencia/#comment-15431 casey Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:57:48 +0000 http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2007/08/27/what-is-the-what-and-826-valencia/#comment-15431 I've long avoided the Beautiful Boys of Contemporary Fiction. Yes, I read <em>The Corrections</em>, and didn't hate it. But a lot of the stuff seems like post-post-modern reflexive puffery. Jonathan Safran Foer ain't speaking for this thirtysomething white quasi-intellectual male. Of course, one can't make fun of what one hasn't actually read. I'm finally coming off a decade-long nonfiction bender; maybe I'll do a little backtracking. Not sure if I'm put off by the cadre of hipster acts that played this benefit. I believe "synergy" is the obnoxious marketing term. I swear I'm not blog-stalking. You're just that fascinating. I’ve long avoided the Beautiful Boys of Contemporary Fiction. Yes, I read The Corrections, and didn’t hate it. But a lot of the stuff seems like post-post-modern reflexive puffery. Jonathan Safran Foer ain’t speaking for this thirtysomething white quasi-intellectual male.

Of course, one can’t make fun of what one hasn’t actually read.

I’m finally coming off a decade-long nonfiction bender; maybe I’ll do a little backtracking.

Not sure if I’m put off by the cadre of hipster acts that played this benefit. I believe “synergy” is the obnoxious marketing term.

I swear I’m not blog-stalking. You’re just that fascinating.

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