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Six (More) Stoner Novels (And a Bonus Short Story)
A few years ago, to celebrate 4/20, Sam Munson at the Daily Beast wrote an article praising “The Best Stoner Novels.” Not a bad list—Wonder Boys, sure, Invisible Man, a bit of a stretch, The Savage...
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Another paradox (David Foster Wallace)
This is another paradox, that many of the most important impressions and thoughts in a person’s life are ones that flash through your head so fast that fast isn’t even the right word, they seem totally...
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“I bristle at the idea that the only thing Susan Sontag or David Foster...
If I had first encountered Anaïs Nin by reading a quote of hers about love or dreams or fulfilling your potential or massaging your inner child superimposed on an insufferably twee image, I would never...
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The Never-Ending Torture of Unrest | Georg Büchner’s Lenz Reviewed
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (detail), Francisco Goya Composed in 1836, Georg Büchner’s novella-fragment Lenz still seems ahead of its time. While Lenz’s themes of madness, art, and ennui can...
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The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemingway’s Tale of Doomed Polyamory
In general, I dislike reviews that frontload context—get to the book, right? So here’s a short review of Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden: it is stranger than most of what Hemingway wrote, by...
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Ten Inspiring Quotes from Ten Inspirational Writers
Tagged: Advice, Anne Sexton, David Foster Wallace, Ernest Hemingway, Guy Debord, Hart Crane, Hunter S. Thompson, inspiring quotes, John Berryman, Quotes, Satire, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Walter...
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Nature’s Nightmare, A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion (Book...
I was psyched when Greg Carlisle’s Nature’s Nightmare: Analyzing David Foster Walalce’s Oblivion showed up in the mail. (You might recall Carlisle as the author of Elegant Complexity, a study of...
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James Wood’s The Fun Stuff Reviewed
I hate that I love to hate reading James Wood—and when I love what he writes I hate that I love it. His take on Blood Meridian absolutely infuriated me, but a stray line from an essay he wrote on...
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Although Of Course You End Up Riffing Obliquely on How a David Foster Wallace...
1. In 1992 I asked my grandmother to rent Steven Soderbergh’s film Kafka from Blockbuster so I could watch it. We watched it together. I was intrigued; she found it dull. I saw it again in college and...
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“There’s a purity of intent and a lack of self-consciousness that I wish I...
Let’s put it this way. Say you’ve got really serious art, and it takes really hard work, whether it’s painting or music or literature. That stuff’s not fun in the way commercial entertainment is fun. I...
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“Good Old Neon”— David Foster Wallace
“Good Old Neon” by David Foster Wallace My whole life I’ve been a fraud. I’m not exaggerating. Pretty much all I’ve ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people....
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Tagged: Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, David Foster Wallace, Film, Jason Segel, terrible ideas
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“My Appearance”— David Foster Wallace
I am a woman who appeared in public on Late Night with David Letterman on March 22, 1989. In the words of my husband, Rudy, I am a woman whose face and attitudes are known to something over half of...
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Good Old “Good Old Neon” Essay (Not Actually Old But Actually Very New)
Today, the Los Angeles Review of Books published an insightful essay by Tim Peters about David Foster Wallace’s short story “Good Old Neon.” “Good Old Neon” is (in my estimation) Wallace’s finest...
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(This Is Not) David Foster Wallace’s Annotated Copy of Ulysses
I first saw this at the tumblr Book Patrol; they corrected their post fairly quickly. @biblioklept Hilarious. That book is "Robert Mitchum: 'Baby, I Don't Care'" by Lee Server. Compare the pages:...
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David Foster Wallace Subscribes to The Believer; Can’t Fathom Putting a...
(Source; via; via). Tagged: David Foster Wallace, The Believer
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Read an Early David Foster Wallace Story, “Order and Flux in Northampton”
David Foster Wallace’s “Order and Flux in Northampton” was published in the Fall 1991 issue of Conjunctions: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. First few paragraphs: BARRY DINGLE, CROSS-EYED PURVEYOR...
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Feral hamsters are not pets. They mean business.
Tagged: Books, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Legos, Literature
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“Forever Overhead”— David Foster Wallace
“Forever Overhead” by David Foster Wallace Happy Birthday. Your thirteenth is important. Maybe your first really public day. Your thirteenth is the chance for people to recognize that important things...
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Ultimate Fiction: Fake Memoir of Job at IRS by Fake Name (David Foster...
The David Foster Wallace archive at the Harry Ransom Center UT has made some documents from The Pale King accessible online, including a few pages of his workbook, handwritten drafts, and typed edits....
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