It is the liminal space between sincerity and truth that the short fiction so precisely depicts
esp his tendency to use first-person and even self-representative narrators
Like Barth, Wallace retained a belief in the author's power and responsibility [...] stopping short of wholesale mort d'author abrogation.
this articulation on Wallace's part seems more eisegetical or even projective than accurate
on DFW saying that Wittgenstein was motivated by a horror of solipsism
Boswell referred to Broom as "first and foremost a work of metafiction," but I do not fully agree. While the "direct and immediate concern with fiction-making itself" that characterizes the metafictionist, is undeniably present in Broom, it is superseded by a much more pressing concern: how to …
it can put "ironists" in danger of becoming what Sartre called "metastable"
on Lenore in Broom
