This post is versus James Wood

I think that Z. Smith, DFW, JSF, all those maximalist writers, are today's Kerouac's "mad to talk, mad to live" - these people are mad to write, mad to tell a story, mad to learn, mad to know; this "maximalism" stuff is the unquenchable desire not to leave anything out, because everything is important; there are 1,000 plots, there are no flat characters; everyone is important. This is literature at its most breathtaking, most realistic; this is life on paper, this is what makes me mad to read and write.