I was talking with Jameelah over pasta and mentioned this video. I thought I would share it. Why's nobody blog-postin'? (Maybe I'm going nuts with the school-blog.)

The following should be queued up to just before an interview conducted by Charlie Rose between David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Mark Leyner. It's about how they viewed "contemporary" fiction in 1996. It's interesting to hear big-time authors from the past talking about their present. Is fiction dead yet?



Please notice these things:

• DFW's face at Rose's introduction, moving from surprise to elation to anger to stoicism in 1.5 sec.
• Mark Leyner looking, acting, talking, and theorizing much like a man who would sell you a Jeep Cherokee.
• Charlie Rose's complete and total WORSHIP of DFW.
• Jonathan Franzen sounding like the pragmatic uncle I have never had.