Originally Posted by canice
i think dave eggers is completely unreadable. the half of heartbreaking that i read felt overly pedantic/pretentious.
i work for a small publisher, and my boss (who's from san francisco) hates all the mcsweeney dudes because they act like the rockstars of the literary world.
i wouldn't call him unreadable, challenging maybe. in fact i liked that book because of the boundary breaking style of it. i actually enjoy the mild pretention of it. have you read his friend neil pollack? the pretention takes on a life of it's own and i guess that's the point.
what publisher do you work for? my wife and i are former publishing world / book people.
here's one mcsweeney's title everyone here could enjoy.