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  • The Great American Hack: David Foster Wallace and Aaron Swartz

    I just finished 'Infinite Jest.' Like anyone who's spent months reading a 1,008-page book, particularly this one, I'm at a loss. It's sprawling, and by this point, all the important details from the novel's opening pages are teetering on the foggy edges of my memory. I want to throw it across the room—out of desperation, or passionate love, or both. Instead I pick it up and begin it all over again, this time humbled. Full story

    2013 Feb 2 Claire Evans Stuff
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  • How Will the David Foster Wallace Legacy Survive Itself?

    As much as I despise the thought that all this post-death doing is killing what was wonderful about what had been, it is a good reminder to anybody that what you do or say or create often only begins to define what you always are. Full story

    2013 Jan 8 Blake Butler Stuff
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  • The Deaths of David Foster Wallace

    D. T. Max’s ‘Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace’

    Wallace's intersecting plotlines and cascades of footnotes were a testimony to the ‘infinitude’ of the world, as he experienced it. His biography, on the other hand, is more like a square meal than a crack binge. But it satisfies some basic biography-reader hungers. Full story

    2012 Sep 12 Leslie Jamison Stuff
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