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- 625 Views
- 5 Comments
Reading Mark Twain
AUGUST 16, 2011 12:10PM
Topics: american literature, this american life, mark twain, danagram, daniel rigney, war prayer+twain, innocents at home, letter from the earth+twain, samuel clemens, david foster wallace, kurt vonnegut, martin luther king, dorothy parker, walt whitman, emily dickinson, samuel clemens was no mark twain, mark twain was no mark twain, mick jagger was no mick jagger, twain was no shakespeare, american provincialism, cosmoplolitan provincialism, humor, belief/religion, books, certainty is an emotion, william james+will to believe, greetings earthlings, reading project, shakespeare was no shakespeare, staycation, literary stay-cation, comedy, fiction, open+call, poetry
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- 108 Views
- 0 Comments
The Moment that Infinite Jest Broke Me
JUNE 6, 2011 12:13PM
Topics: tennis, books, david foster wallace
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- 8161 Views
- 27 Comments
Reader's Block
APRIL 29, 2011 8:15AM
Topics: books, book collecting, books i'll never read, ulysses, thomas pynchon, david foster wallace, stephen king, yann martel, tina fey, david mitchell, truman capote, the artist way, nutrition labels on snack foods
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- 367 Views
- 14 Comments
Gotta laugh, sometimes
APRIL 11, 2011 1:02PM
Topics: david foster wallace, alan moore, jerry seinfeld, g.k. chesterton, rita mae brown, voltaire, comedy, humor, groucho marx, george carlin, kurt vonnegut, mark twain, laughter, laugh
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- 4443 Views
- 26 Comments
Pale Kings: Thomas Pynchon On David Foster Wallace
APRIL 5, 2011 9:01AM
Topics: the crying of lot 49, brief interviews with hideous men, v., infinite jest, gravity's rainbow, the pale king, david foster wallace, thomas pynchon, books, publishing, the broom of the system, axl rose, chinese democracy, against the day, mason & dixon, everything and more, a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again, jonathan franzen, oprah, the corrections, inherent vice, consider the lobster, oblivion, nixon, watergate, vietnam, reagan, thatcher, john mccain
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- 270 Views
- 12 Comments
The Pale King -EXCLUSIVE
MARCH 15, 2011 10:32AM
Topics: news, fiction, books, the millions, ingroup press, lyn lejeune, elijah rising, the pale king, david foster wallace, expert opinion
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- 377 Views
- 35 Comments
So you want to be a writer?
FEBRUARY 10, 2011 8:42AM
Topics: fiction, belief/religion, john kennedy toole, deng tu, vachel lindsay, anne sexton john berryman, senceca the young, virginia woolf, david foster wallace, hunter s. thompson, hart crane, primo levy, richard brautigan, sylvia plath, mark twain
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- 203 Views
- 0 Comments
I stand corrected, Mr. Meloy. Thank you!
JANUARY 18, 2011 9:14PM
Topics: colin meloy, decemberists, snark, david foster wallace, humor, books
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- 492 Views
- 2 Comments
Unwarranted Gushing About Someone So Deserving of Gush
AUGUST 10, 2010 3:09PM
Topics: sportswriting, sport, david foster wallace, mitch albom, deadspin, tommy craggs
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- 878 Views
- 13 Comments
I Write Like...Nabokov,King,Wallace, Puzo,Doctorow...
JULY 26, 2010 10:41AM
Topics: dmitry chestnykh, writing, i write like, facebook, david foster wallace, books
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- 209 Views
- 4 Comments
This is water, this is water, this is water...
JUNE 30, 2010 6:10PM
Topics: life, work, philosophy, authors, david foster wallace
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- 1959 Views
- 1 Comments
Zadie Smith on David Foster Wallace on Education
MARCH 15, 2010 8:53AM
Topics: books, fiction, education, zadie smith, david foster wallace
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- Editor's Pick
- 4241 Views
- 36 Comments
Should We Bother With Art?
JANUARY 26, 2010 1:08PM
Topics: art, literature, haiti, port au prince, developing world, journalism, picasso, david foster wallace
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- 853 Views
- 14 Comments
Jobless in Seattle (with ideation)
JANUARY 7, 2010 7:07PM
Topics: david foster wallace, for those who contemplate suicide, wristcutters-a love story, seattle and it's enticements, making full use of the library, down and out, unemployed
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- Editor's Pick
- 5400 Views
- 14 Comments
James Franco: Soap Opera's First Meta-Actor
DECEMBER 22, 2009 12:10PM
Topics: carter, wall street journal, post modernism, avant guard, performance art, david foster wallace, meta, fiction, art, general hospital, james franco
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- 240 Views
- 3 Comments
Finding David Foster Wallace
OCTOBER 22, 2009 12:36PM
Topics: david foster wallace, harper's, fiction, literature, a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again
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- Editor's Pick
- 7372 Views
- 77 Comments
Ruth Reichl on David Foster Wallace and Magazines
OCTOBER 6, 2009 7:30AM
Topics: magazines, open call, breaking news, ruth reichl, gourmet, black foodie tuesday, david foster wallace, books
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- 3145 Views
- 10 Comments
The Real Reason Americans are Afraid of Socialism
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 1:22PM
Topics: politics, health, family, david foster wallace, european socialism, europe, la times, world of warcraft, socialism, community
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- 221 Views
- 0 Comments
The Risks and Rewards of Reading Outdoors
SEPTEMBER 5, 2009 7:31PM
Topics: insects, david foster wallace, outdoors, books
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- 715 Views
- 11 Comments
On Reading David Foster Wallace
JUNE 15, 2009 10:23AM
Topics: david foster wallace, suicide, writing, reading, difficult novel
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