Hello, everyone! Regardless of your location or plans for next week’s meeting, I wanted to make a space for readers of Speedboat to discuss. Feel free to share whatever is on your mind or pose a question for your fellow readers in this thread.
Recently came across an essay about Speedboat, in the context of being an important reference for David Foster Wallace, and keep thinking about this quote:
“Renata Adler uses this book to stack our own experiences and thought processes against us, hoping to reveal our own paths of truth making and self-discovery, for better or for worse.”
^ Observing the book from this context, do you think it could exist similarly in any time period, in any geographical place, with any protagonist? I spend the whole unconsciously trying to put Jen into a box and assign a stereotype to her and was surprised to find that by the end, it felt as though she could have been me, or anyone else.
Recently came across an essay about Speedboat, in the context of being an important reference for David Foster Wallace, and keep thinking about this quote:
“Renata Adler uses this book to stack our own experiences and thought processes against us, hoping to reveal our own paths of truth making and self-discovery, for better or for worse.”
^ Observing the book from this context, do you think it could exist similarly in any time period, in any geographical place, with any protagonist? I spend the whole unconsciously trying to put Jen into a box and assign a stereotype to her and was surprised to find that by the end, it felt as though she could have been me, or anyone else.