u/CokeZeroChance

Still stewing over the Michelle Zauner forward for IJ's 30th anniversary. I actually read the first few pages when I was in a bookstore a couple of weeks ago, and it struck me that no where in the forward did she mention IJ was an avant-garde book, instead she lazily categorizes it as 'classic fiction" or whatever the fuck white dudes read.

If she knew anything about DFW, she would realize he went out of his way to identify with the avant garde tradition -- going out of his way to promote authors like Barth and Markson. What gets me the most is that a towering figure in avant-garde literature is GERTRUDE FUCKING STEIN.

Which renders her argument obselete, god I actually actively hate that she wrote that intro.

edits: typos.