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Prof. David Foster Wallace

  • Guia Cortassa
  • December 9, 2014
We can approach the books from a variety of different critical, theoretical, and ideological perspectives, too, depending on students’ backgrounds and interests. In essence, we can talk about whatever you…
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Literary Puns

  • Timothy Leo Taranto
  • January 11, 2013
Timothy Leo Taranto illustrates some of literature’s greats, including David Foster Wallace and Gromit, Flan-nery O’Connor, and John Frankensteinbeck.
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Pulitizer Do-Over

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 9, 2012
NYT Magazine asked writers and critics which novels deserved this year’s “lost” Pultizer Prize. DFW’s The Pale King was a repeat hypothetical winner. “The Pale King, my favorite work of…
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Thoughts on DFW

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 21, 2012
Rumpus contributor Daniel Roberts has two pieces on David Foster Wallace in honor of what would have been his 50th birthday. This Berfois essay examines The Marriage Plot‘s Leonard Bankhead…
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Wallace-L and the Howling Fantods

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • January 4, 2011
David Foster Wallace’s “secret life as a philosopher” and the story of how Fate, Time, and Language, his honors theses turned postmortem book, came to be published.
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A Titanic for these times

  • Mark Follman
  • June 9, 2009
The June issue of the Atlantic has a look at the mind-blowing “Oasis of the Seas,” a gargantuan ocean liner forthcoming from cruise company Royal Caribbean International. Its unprecedented scale…
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FADE TO ORANGE: Famous-on-Famous/Film Links Forever

  • Michelle Orange
  • February 13, 2009
You know, you come home from, say, a happening launch party, it’s around midnight and you’re feeling excellent, you turn on the TV so as not to consume your prophylactic…
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