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Posts tagged David Foster Wallace
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story
The older I get the more I truly believe ignorance is bliss, especially if you’re the type to put heroes…
A short list of current obsessions
[circle_list] Saying “Ugh.Barf!” about everything that annoys me in any way. The Amanda Palmer/$1.2 million on Kickstarter and yet mysteriously…
The bright, shiny penny & David Foster Wallace
Thursday I had the pleasure and honor to be interviewed by a delightful young woman from the UofM for the…
Tiger Beat: The Dead Author Special Issue
There is no way for me to adequately review David Lipsky’s erm, book-length interview? biography? of David Foster Wallace, Although…
One thing about the last night of class
I only mentioned David Foster Wallace once. Seriously. Hanging out with The Teacher and four other writers at Grumpy’s and…
Annoying everyone with my love
So I’m in love. The pathetic kind of love where you pounce on every opportunity to spout about your lover….
Well, we have that in common & a fondness for lugubrious
I am in love with Slate’s list of words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary. Circling words would be…
In the shadow of no David Foster Wallace
Yesterday I did something I haven’t done in a very long time, nothing. It was glorious, well mostly glorious. Sometimes…
What fiction ought to be
“He and Franzen talked a lot about what writing should be for. “We had this feeling that fiction ought to…