Found this in DFW’s fantastic essay/review of Garner’s Dictionary of Modern American Usage.
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The essence of trips
Filed under Prose & Lyrics in February 2012.David Lipsky writes of his road-trip/interview with David Foster Wallace during the latter’s book tour.
Read more…Part of our job
Filed under Quotes in January 2012.From the closest book to an autobiography we have of DFW, “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself”.
Read more…Life vs. Choice
Filed under Prose & Lyrics in January 2012.DFW arrives at the rationally empathetic position on the pro-life vs pro-choice debate.
Read more…Lobsters as a delicacy
Filed under Factoids in January 2012.David Foster Wallace’s award-winning essay about the Maine Lobster Festival was not exactly advertisement material.
Read more…What goes on inside
Filed under Prose & Lyrics in December 2011.David Foster Wallace attempts to describe the workings of an existential mind, and immediately justifies his inability to do just that.
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