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A Special Way of Being Afraid: David Simon Doesn't Care for Your Lawn Furniture
by k at 11:20 pm EDT, Aug 8, 2007 |
DAVID SIMON: My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: f*** the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. F*** him. F*** him to hell.
Awesome! Yes! |
A Special Way of Being Afraid: David Simon Doesn't Care for Your Lawn Furniture
by Dagmar at 9:00 am EDT, Aug 9, 2007 |
DAVID SIMON: My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: f*** the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. F*** him. F*** him to hell.
YAY! F**k the dim! |
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