Yeah yeah, I know I go on about these two a bit. Ellis tweeted his latest reading the other day, and it turns out he's getting stuck into Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace, by David Lipsky. Interesting, as Ellis was one of the people Wallace used as an example of (roughly) what was wrong with modern fiction. The interview will be online somewhere, excuse my laziness. To be somewhat simplistic, Wallace had a fairly conservative view of literature in many ways, and felt that it should have some sort of moral centre or message. Ellis, he felt, had none. It's the same thing friends who've read the latter's books have said to me afterwards. 'Yeah I liked it and all that, but what's it saying?' Personally, I don't think anyone has a responsibility to 'say,' anything, as long as they write good books.
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