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Clad in Irony
The New Yorker has a powerful profile of David Foster Wallace, which includes this passage: “It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most ‘familiarity’ is meditated and delusive,” he said in a long 1991 interview with Larry McCaffery, an English professor at San Diego State. The default for Wallace would have been irony—the prevailing tone of his generation. But, as Wallace saw it, irony could critique but it couldn’t nourish or redeem.Read More
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Infinte Jester
The brilliant David Foster Wallace apparently committed suicide on Friday.Read More