David Foster Wallace Week: Part I
So, it’s David Foster Wallace Week here at 3000 BOOKS. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that it’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace Week, but that would be more...
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Someone told me that David Foster Wallace’s mother used to pretend to choke every time he or his sister, Amy, made a grammatical mistake in conversation, and wouldn’t stop until they corrected the...
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Dodgem-car driver: David Foster Wallace and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men‘s spasmodic variety of forms If I were asked to place David Foster Wallace in the literary carnival, I’d probably have him...
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David Foster Wallace and pre-empting the editorial reader The therapist said that she felt she could support the depressed person’s use of the word ‘vulnerable’ far more wholeheartedly than she could...
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Möbius master: David Foster Wallace and the masculine manipulator1,2 It’s been a week-long Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace spectacular here at 3000 BOOKS. I’ve been discussing...
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