What's the frequency, kid?
October 9, 2015 10:54 PM Subscribe
A Highly Irregular Children’s Story: David Gates reviews The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, a children's book by Donald Barthelme. [Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1976]
I truly love Barthelme, Karl Ove Knausgård, William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace, but I feel like a lot of the intellectualizing and criticism surrounding his work is absurd.
posted by Fizz at 4:43 AM on October 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Fizz at 4:43 AM on October 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
This review reminds me of an English literature class I took in college. I was struggling with the analysis papers. Then I started writing ones that were meant to be parodies of what I thought the professor wanted and I started getting A's.
posted by thedward at 7:49 AM on October 10, 2015 [13 favorites]
posted by thedward at 7:49 AM on October 10, 2015 [13 favorites]
To be fair you can't expect him to both pioneer soft rock and be able to write comprehensible prose.
posted by howfar at 10:44 AM on October 10, 2015
posted by howfar at 10:44 AM on October 10, 2015
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