Thursday, July 14, 2011

Excluding Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again...?

Has someone read anything by David Foster Wallace? I really his short stories "Mister Squishy" and "The Soul is Not a Smithy," and I'm thoroughly enjoying his first novel, "The Broom of the System" (which reads somewhat like a less smarmy Seth McFarland with brains). I dare say I prefer these works to IJ (not to to discredit that magnificent tome, parts of which are among the thi ngs written in forty years, but which suffers that most American of faults, excess).

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