![]() The novel is set in 1990 in Cleveland, Ohio, though it’s not like the Cleveland I know, and I should know, since I’m from Ohio myself. Instead of writing one of those minimalist novels that take place somewhere between the K-Mart and the trailer camp, where everyone speaks in monotones and everything is described in short sentences written in the present tense and all the women have Ann in their names somewhere, the man decides to write an incredibly complicated metafiction, if you’ll excuse my French, of the kind not seen since the heyday of John Barth and Donald, not Frederick, Barthelme and William Gass and William Gaddis and, oh yes, Thomas Pynchon.” ![]() The man certainly can write, but he seems to have a serious problem with the style of fiction now in vogue. A man named David Foster Wallace writes a novel called ‘The Broom of the System.’ The man is a 24-year-old graduate of Amherst, who is pursuing an MFA at the University of Arizona. ![]() “I did read a rather interesting one recently.” ![]()
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