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The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (Book acquired,...
The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the work of David Foster Wallace. The Journal is published by the DFW Society. Here is the table of contents...
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The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies, Vol. 1, Issue 2 (Book acquired,...
I finally had a bit of time to properly dip into the second issue of The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies this afternoon. (I brought it to work with me and read from it between classes.) This...
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A note to readers new to Infinite Jest
A note to readers new to Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel Infinite Jest poses rhetorical, formal, and verbal challenges that will confound many readers new to the text. The abundance of...
View ArticleI still think American Psycho is a very sincere book | Bret Easton Ellis
HARI KUNZRU: In the great irony-sincerity wars of the ’90s, you and David Foster Wallace came to represent opposite poles, and in literary terms the struggle between the two modes paid off in all sorts...
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A review of Trey Ellis’s polyglossic satire Platitudes
Trey Ellis’s 1988 debut novel Platitudes begins with a typical metatextual conceit: the novel-within-a-novel gambit. Our story starts with Earle, a nerdy, idealistic high school sophomore who lusts...
View ArticleJust asking | David Foster Wallace
“Just Asking” by David Foster Wallace First published in The Atlantic, 2007 Are some things still worth dying for? Is the American idea* one such thing? Are you up for a thought experiment? What if we...
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