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Relevant quote from David Foster Wallace: If you, the writer, succumb to the idea that the audience is too stupid, then there are two pitfalls. Number one is the avant-garde pitfall, where you have the idea that you’re writing for other writers, so you don’t worry about making yourself accessible or relevant. You worry about making it structurally and technically cutting edge: involuted in the right ways, making the…
> television on the page By which he means most novels, I suppose, which, in turn, means it's nothing to do with television. Add to that all of the wonderful programs on television, such as the films on TCM, the serial dramas on AMC, HBO, and PBS, and the better comedies on the major networks, and this becomes puzzling. Oh. Wait. No, it doesn't. It becomes a relic from an earlier time, the 1950s and the 1960s, primar…
Re: Almost Too Beautiful (2003)
#51Before a hundred channels of cable TV, most TV entertainment was pretty unchallenging because they needed to please everyone. Modern TV can carve deeper niches because there are more channels. I don't know if it's gotten more challenging in those niches, but perhaps it has.