“Disch’s take is that by living out the misery of our predecessors virtually, we can gain a bit more insight and compassion with regard to our misery and that of those around us. He’s probably right.”
Yesterday we linked to “a long, engaging, and superb profile of the writer Thomas M. Disch” over at the Millions. Today the author of the piece, David Auerbach, has published “an appendix of miscellaneous points” that didn’t fit into the original article “in the hopes of pointing people to assorted other spots in his oeuvre.”