DFW wrote very soft, his sentences hit you like a pool noodle swung by a child. His style was simply an abundance of words, thrust on a page, in the hopes of affecting the reader. He hid behind a veneer of intellectualism. A big red flag when I read him was the occasional times he would bring up mat...

Well done, very moving. Put to words how I felt, but wasn't able to describe.

Heard about Don after he messaged me for being a runner-up the MDE writing contest, and looked up his name to find the Dagger mag website. I'm a little skeptical about outsider publications, because they tend to be shit. They are outside the literary establishment for good reason. I checked out some...

reread celine - journey to the end of the night recently, one of the great works of fiction "Journey to the end of the night" has to be the most fitting title, and given the quality of the book, the best title of all time. Anytime I'm out with friends, drunk, trying to get with a girl, leaving my o...