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August 31, 2012

We Must Worship

August 31, 2012/ Nicholas Nardini

The first biography of David Foster Wallace is out and it's hardly the sort of book he himself would have written -- or read. Might this be for the best?

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August 31, 2012/ Nicholas Nardini/
Arts & Life
Biography Review, Book Review, david foster wallace, jonathan franzen, September 2012
August 31, 2012

From the Archives: A Voyeur in the Archives

August 31, 2012/ Max Ross

"Ellis, Leyner, Leavitt, Franzen, Powers…their fictions reduce to complaints and self-pity. Dostoevski has balls.” This and other gleanings from a trip to the David Foster Wallace archives.

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August 31, 2012/ Max Ross/
Fiction
david foster wallace, Don DeLillo, Dostoevsky, fiction, James Joyce, john updike, Kafka, Max Ross, September 2012, Virgil
February 29, 2012

The Tigers of Wrath

February 29, 2012/ Nicholas Nardini

Where would Lionel Trilling, godfather of the liberal imagination, fit into our contemporary culture of ideas? And how much of that culture is of his making?

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February 29, 2012/ Nicholas Nardini/
Features, Literary Criticism
david foster wallace, Edmund Wilson, fiction, Freud, Lionel Trilling, literary criticism, Malcolm Gladwell, March 2012, New Yorker, Plato, Susan Sontag, T-S- Eliot, W- H- Auden, Yale University Press
January 31, 2012

Crowd Control to Major Tom

January 31, 2012/ Christopher Urban

Tom McCarthy's Derrida-inspired linguistic and narrative fixations are once again on full display in Men in Space, his first novel now reissued after the popularity of Remainder and C

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January 31, 2012/ Christopher Urban/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, david foster wallace, February 2012, fiction, literary criticism, Zadie Smith
August 31, 2010

“Your Princess is in Another Castle”

August 31, 2010/ Phillip A. Lobo

In the gaming memoir "Unplugged," one man grapples with the story of his own addiction to video games.

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August 31, 2010/ Phillip A. Lobo/
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Book Review, david foster wallace, Phillip Lobo, September 2010
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