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RIP: David Foster Wallace

This is what I get for staying up late and not going to bed before 11 pm tonight, which I should have done if I want to be rested next week. Breaking news: David Foster Wallace, one of my literary...

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The Merely Odd Does Not Last?

When talking about literature, a lot of words get tossed around: avant-garde, experimental, postmodern, transgressive, pomo (ugh), fabulist, and others. But what do they mean? On a case by case basis,...

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David Foster Wallace and Emerson

In case you haven’t caught it yet, the New Yorker this week features a wonderful and mammoth profile on the late great David Foster Wallace, who killed himself in September last year. While reading, I...

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The Click of a Well-made Box

Don Delillo doesn't smile for photos “It was really an experience of what I think Yeats called ‘the click of a well-made box.’ Something like that. The word I always think of it as is ‘click.’…In Don...

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Modulation Symbols

As you may know, on 14 September the DFW Archives at the University of Texas-Austin’s Ransom Center opened to scholars. Molly Schwartzburg, curator of British and American lit: Notably, we’ve had...

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LIST/NISM

-Memorious 15 has entered the world to feature a fitting number of pieces (fifteen) by (among others) Gail Mazur, David Daniel, Miguel Murphy, and my fellow Hope alum Matthew Baker. Matt also edits...

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