>it's an experimental mammoth about disillusioned, prone-to-pithy-sayings

that's basically DFW.

>it's a young gentleman having sex and doing drugs but sometimes he has philosophical thoughts that must certainly make up for the tedium of hearing another description of a young woman's body told with pseudo-poetic prose as well as scenes that describe the dreamy feeling of heroin for the eight thousandth time episode

>experimental mammoth

>>7652937
How many of these are there? Name three.

You'd be a little more on point if you cut out the "20 somethings" modifier.

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>it's a novel supposed to be critiquing our disillusioned po-mo zeitgeist but instead becomes itself an example of the inept culture of our era

>>7652952
everything david "career move" wallace wrote desu

>>7652955
>main character is genuinely concerned with issues that won't be cool to talk about very talk after the book's release

>>7652948

You just described literary fiction since 1890.

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>it's a book

>>7652959
The majority of IJ did not take place in the suburbs or feature 20 somethings.
Most of his short stories fail to check one or any of those boxes.
Broom is a stretch, and I know nothing about Pale King.
Nah brah