I don't really care that many people have a hard time with DFW's pretentious style or book length. I enjoyed infinite jest immensely—there are some really gold

I don't really care that many people have a hard time with DFW's pretentious style or book length. I enjoyed infinite jest immensely—there are some really golden scenes that will stick with me forever. Would I read it if I was overworked or busy? no.. but I wouldn't read Shogun or Shantaram if I was too busy either. My point is, if you don't feel like doing something, great—but then getting prescriptive about it & trying to dissuade others seems like an error. "Abundance" is not a personal problem in the arts - maybe it's a professional one, but that is addressing an entirely different goal of curation rather than as a recipient of art. It is the idea that one is supposed to "keep up" or "know everything" ala "last person to know everything" e.g. leibniz, is absurd. The author has kind of buried the lede and is actually against subjugating herself to accepting what "the literary marketplace put forward as worthy of attention".