David Foster Wallace & David Sedaris are both "consummable media" in that they're pleasurable to read... but you walk away from their material and just feel emp

David Foster Wallace & David Sedaris are both "consummable media" in that they're pleasurable to read... but you walk away from their material and just feel empty (except for esoteric connections you might've woven into your own storyline). With any expert technical knowledge, you'll quickly know that Wallace wasn't any expert. I've only read Infinite Jest once, and would have edited it differently myself — but the scenes on addiction are powerful, stressful, and accurate (as somebody over a decade california clean). Pale King is better prose, but in both cases DFW isn't a "complete" author — he expects too much from his readers. At least in Sedaris' case, he keeps his prose brief =D