who is this guy /lit/ and why does hes always get posted here?

he's franzen's dead best friend. end of story. read Purity or The Corrections, disregard plebeian foster wallace

roses are red
violets are blue
infinite jest sucks
so does any other ulysses clone

he's /ourguy/

>>8495801
his face is real hateable in that one

he's tony shapiro, a renowned con artist who used to copy paste wikipedia articles, print them into books, and sell them to kids at the back of his van.

>>8495801
what did he think about 9/11

>>8495814
If you call IJ a Ulysses clone you obviously haven't read either.
Or have I just fallen for bait :(((

>>8495804
> DFW is a plebeian Franzen
M8 it's the other way around, what alternative world are you from?

>>8495801
he couldn't look more autistic if he tried

>>8497308
Take a photo of yourself with semi-closed eyes, bam, you couldn't look more autistic if you tried.

>>8497308
dfw is the literal embodiment of autism
we should start a religion (autismism?) that holds him up to be our autistic god

>>8495801

He's the kid from Hey Arnold too afraid to leave the stoop.

>>8495801
He's writer.

>>8497327
Sure I could. I could put on Harry Potter glasses, a fucking bandana, grow a neckbeard, wear cargo shorts, a graphic t, and some autism shoes

>>8495804
>He actually likes Franzen

lmao so gay

>>8497330
- teen tennis champion, gives tennis lessons
- degree in philosophy (amherst?)
- admitted to Harvard
- submits his first work of fiction to the english department, hailed as a great, influential first novel
- becomes a famous writer
- book tours
- TV interviews
- writes about alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous
married
- famous speech about the importance of empathy
- interview where he says he can't answer all the deep questions, but would rather have a conversation with the journalist

>autism?
yeah that would be pretty high level here.

>>8496942
don't worry, that guy is just a Dan Schneider clone

>>8495801
Why is he not as big of a meme on /lit/ as he used to be?
Is he actually good?
Would I get much out of reading him in the original even if english is my second language and I have to look up words like perfunctorily, desultorily, ornery, loquacious, obsequious, gaunt etc?

>>8497721

cliff's review of the recognitions puts it pretty succinctly, when he mentions DFW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibUOu0qBEP8&t=5m20s

pretty good though

>>8495801
>that guy wrote Infinite Jest

>>8497772
a fucking goblin

>>8497721
We've moved on, Jerusalem/Bottom's Dream is new meme

>>8497721
spoiler : it will be much harder to read in a translation.

also, today you double-tap a word and you get its definition, don't you?

anyway, w/e the language, some sentences from IJ will give you headaches. But many are worth it.

Infinite Jest is good