sadybusiness:

1. 

When my boyfriend and I are making cruel and unjust fun of Internet articles in the privacy of our home, as it is our right as citizens to do, we sometimes land on “Reasonable Empathy Guy Voice.” Heyyyyy. We’re all people! I’m a good person, you’re a good person! Let’s be reasonable! David Foster Wallace! Have you read that guy? Heyyyyyy, why are you all so mad? Lena Dunham! TheREG sounds kind of like a creepy camp counselor. You get the sense that he is always about 30 seconds away from whipping out his acoustic guitar. It’s not actually that funny. But the REG is common enough, and easy enough to get fed up with, that when someone finally wrote an essay about him, everyone, including me, had something to say. 

2. 

The thing about that whole “you can’t judge a novel until you’ve written one” line is that, yes, it’s silly. If that’s the case, then no-one, except novelists, should be reading. 

But I tried to write one, last month, just in case. And it actually worked. 

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