I'm not terribly surprised, since snark is *also* effectively an attempt to pull authority and demolish criticism by making something sincere ridiculous and position the snarker as a morally superior enlightened being.
I mean he's "smarmy" in the sense that Scocca really seems to get exercised about, which is that he's sentimental and emotive without being particularly political Which is the main thing that separates him from DFW, the other 90s literary David
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His stuff about dodging rape as a gay teenage hitchhiker in Oregon is pretty ironic and "snarky", like the jokey tone clearly isn't reflecting his actual lack of trauma from that time period, but he doesn't come out and make it about capitalism or conservatism or anything
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