Was pic related the peak of american intelligentsia?

what an embarrassing era

glad I suckled titty through most of it

How do you guys think DFW managed to control his power level around all those brainlets?

>>9616592
I had never even heard of the fourth guy before desu

>>9616592
>ENLIGHTEN ME

>>9616592
Why does Franzen have such a stupid haircut

>>9616903
He has the second best hair after the interviewer

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desu

>>9616894
>go fish
>no, ENLIGHTEN me
>7s
>ENLIGHTEN me

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please Ladies, no comments about hair

>>9616924
Why are all those fags who met DFW so super adamant about letting you know that they knew DFW and let him suicide himself?

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>>9616934
name dropping I guess

>>9616592
yes

just four guys shooting the proverbial shit at its highest level of concentration

we may go to the stars and beyond but it'll never be like this again

a covert enterprise for dudes throughout time and space having one last scratch at the cat in an era where respect was the most scarce resource there was

>>9616592
Charlie Rose? Yeah he is pretty much the best interviewer of all time.

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>>9616934
>you really made me realize what I was missing there anon let's just keep it a secret between you and me but you'll always be the one who convinced me out of those higher order self-esteem paradoxes and I'll just be here as well

>>9616950
This is funny. When celebrities let loose on talk shows like Charlie Rose and Howard Stern and talk about all the women they've fucked but then that's basically YA writers all the time

>>9616939
that is an ass to feast upon wtf

not so big on the girl though

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chick magnet

>four middle-class straight white males

fucking lol

>>9616989
Women can't write, Anon

>>9616939
is that zadie smith's ass? i would stuff the shit out of that

>>9617093
no idea
google images => pinterest
maybe from this http://www.leconversazioni.it/it/media/2006.html

>>9616592
On a semi-related note, Charlie Rose is the GOAT and I'll likely cry when he passes

>>9616592
I love DFW's little man bun

>>9616973
Didn't know he smoked

>>9616592
am I supposed to recognize the bald man?

>>9617122
He smoked ironically

DFW alone, yes
the rest, not so much

>>9617130
He is Thomas Pynchon

>>9617130
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwfQl2LGhwc

>when Leyner has a Paris Review Art of Fiction interview and DFW doesn't

Absolute madness

>>9617157
Who the fuck is Leyner?

The interview in the OP is the only time I have ever heard of him

>>9616939
What is that thing on his left socket?

>>9617168
That's Joathan Franzen, someone who knew DFW but did not prevent his suicide

Apparently he also wrote a book

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>>9617168
mechanical pedometer?

Anyway I like his mix of effortless style, and dominant posture.

>>9617157
>The interview has to mention this tv segment with DFW to help give Leyner credibility

>>9616616
by being the biggest brainlet of them all

>>9617168
DUMB PHONEPOSTER

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No this was

>>9616950
>tfw he will never interview Pynchon

>>9617147
Wow that leyner got absolutely wrecked, even with hindsight you could see who was qualified for success on this panel...

>>9617457
i just orgasmed looking at this image.

>>9616924
Is Franzen the Rivers Cuomo of literature?

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>>9617457
Wrong again, Chicagocuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU

Not American, but a good watch

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>>9617147
>that look between DFW and Franzen when Charlie Rose says Infinite Jest is long and complicated "even compared to the Internet"

>>9617633
just watched this last night - amazing

>>9617661
>DFW and Frazen were trolling that was even a thing.
Man, why did someone so cool and so edgy like DFW have to die?

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>>9616616
He actually did not.

>>9617580
Kek, yes

>>9617724
you'd have to ask DFW, he's the one who made the decision

>>9617168
tin of chew, it's something tube-sock wearing Illinois folk did in the 90s

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>>9617580
Holy shit

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no

>>9617457
The league of anti-intellectuals. Don't know why people still read these guys.

>>9617917

Yes they are against ((intellectuals)) and their poisonous cowardice